Example Sentences

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The identities of who was in and who was out began to become clear from about 17:00 BST, at the same time as the majority of the players themselves were finding out.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Employers were finding it almost impossible to recruit young people to take up an apprenticeship.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Today, though, investors were finding some cause for optimism.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Continuing claims had risen over the summer, a sign that workers were finding it hard to get a new job after being laid off.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

At the end of a decade or more of intensive chemical control, entomologists were finding that problems they had considered solved a few years earlier had returned to plague them.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson