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He added that the team had experienced a busy period of call-outs in recent days and were completing another rescue when they came to Jeckyll and his owner's aid.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2023

At the same time, multilateral lenders were completing two rounds of debt relief that wrote down what many developing nations owed — in some cases to zero — and offered new grants and cut-rate loans.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

Builders were completing units at an unusually rapid 349,000-per-year rate in early 2022, about 1.2 times the prepandemic pace, based on estimates in a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Western countries have been grappling with how to engage with the Taliban after they took over Afghanistan in a lightning advance in August as U.S.-led forces were completing their pullout.

From Reuters • Dec. 4, 2021

From the classroom, someone turned the radio on: gallant Biafran soldiers were completing a mopping-up operation in a sector Ugwu did not hear clearly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie