weren't
Americancontraction
Usage
See contraction.
Example Sentences
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Abridge had previously trained its own speech recognition model because third-party models weren’t tuned for hospital settings and medical speech, Liang said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
"I don't know. I think it's just execution, greediness of some sort. We clearly weren't the most hungry in the second half."
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Jokes about Twitch streamers getting paid to do nothing were funnier the first 1,000 times you saw them somewhere, and even then, they weren’t worth more than a passing snicker.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
Voices in four languages that weren’t needed, because the language we spoke was the game: the give-and-go, the look that means I’m here, I’ve got you.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
“Just spit it out,” I said as all the solidarity I’d felt a moment before washed away, and I took a step to the left so our shoulders weren’t touching anymore and blinked hard.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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