Example Sentences
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Although the hardware itself never moved, these timed changes generated a traveling pattern around the ring.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
In June, Segro’s board rejected the takeover approach, calling the proposal opportunistically timed and “way short of Segro’s own views on value.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Indeed, that was effectively unknowable because, as the NYPD’s chief of detectives told reporters, they had learned that the bomb could’ve been timed to go off anywhere in the 12 hours prior to actual detonation.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Despite his superstar status, he made long and intense recovery runs before executing perfectly timed slide tackles to stop dangerously fast breaks.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Dad and Mother timed their books to coincide with Mother’s annual intervals of unavoidable delay.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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