Example Sentences

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Last week, having served as stand-in for Vice President Mike Pence during Harris’ debate prep, Buttigieg must have seemed a natural choice for a predebate interview.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2020

It seems possible that the Cox team might need some tips on the predebate negotiation business.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018

Rather than provide our commentary, which we do every day in this space, we decided to lead an audience discussion, which we began with an informal and entirely unscientific predebate preference poll.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 7, 2015

At Romney’s predebate campaign appearance in Tampa, he met with eight residents who work in the housing market or have been affected by declines.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 26, 2012

For all his predebate practice and coaching, Reagan did not entirely escape trouble.

From Time Magazine Archive