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Americancontraction
Usage
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Example Sentences
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One can’t possibly grasp the closeness two people share until they’ve experienced firsthand the joy and indescribable pain that come with the kind of enmeshment written in fate’s codex.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
This is their third 100-win season in six years, and they’ve recorded 100-plus wins in six of the past nine full seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
“These people aren’t looking for mortgages, they are just enjoying the higher investment returns they’ve been seeing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Surging Treasury yields have not only been in sharp focus for equity investors of late; they’ve also made their impact on the foreign exchange market, helping push up the U.S. dollar.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
My eyelids are pulling shut like they’ve missed each other.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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