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Example Sentences
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McGovern on Sunday described it as “the worst-case catastrophic event that we’ve been talking about.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
"It's a nice place to sit and reflect on what we've been through as a family," said Emily.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
“He approached it much more like, ‘Hey, Matt, we’ve been in the battle together, we’ve walked arm in arm, you know my beliefs.
From Salon • May 23, 2026
“What has changed is we’re in this new point in time where we know what we’ve got to do,” Gambetta said.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
“But that’s what happened, and so we’ve lived all our lives in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and so this is where we belong now. It’s what we know. It’s where our families are.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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