Example Sentences

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The company’s coding tool Codex is growing quickly in popularity, and it is shaving costs by cutting other projects such as its video-generation app Sora.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

And that doesn’t mean Musk is shaving off a few billion in savings here or there.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2025

“My character is shaving and I thought it was at the end of the day, like before I go out to dinner or something.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

For Prime Day, Amazon is shaving $40 off the price.

From The Verge • Jul. 12, 2022

It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros