Example Sentences

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Others, he said, found their meaning “in friends, in dogs, in religion, in the self-reflectiveness of writing, etc. But Caltech people largely find it in the continual contest with nature.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

But this self-reflectiveness does not account for the full extent of the book’s value, nor for its allure.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2014