Example Sentences

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The judge said she would declare the case moot if Blanche and Bessent presented a sworn declaration within a week under penalty of perjury that the fund has been abandoned.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Paine presented himself as a novice writer struck by a sudden inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

In 2017 a major retrospective of his work, keyed to his 80th birthday, was presented at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris’ Centre Pompidou and London’s Tate Modern.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Potential clients should ask to see multiple time periods and whether dividends are included in those illustrious stock-market returns being presented.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

For more than the next one hundred years, the fate of the Hunley presented archaeologists, scholars, and the public in general with one of their greatest mysteries.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler