Example Sentences

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First, as an attempt at transparency - that's certainly how Minsk is portraying it.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

But would tech companies still want to work with a surgeon general’s office that is portraying them as dangerous to our youth?

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2024

But it matters even more when one is portraying one of the two characters in the show's title.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023

Analysis: Seeking to burnish its prestige in the world, China is portraying Tiangong as a space station for scientists everywhere, especially in countries without established space programs.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Spirit is portraying spirit, and not externality, which is here made absurd; in this manner we are driven out of the real into ideal, or we drop by the way in reading those four Books.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques