Example Sentences

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The mayor — a “hard-G” man — consoled himself that “civic pride” would keep the good people of Los Whatchamacallit from “ever, ever referring to it as ‘L.A.’“

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2021

She consoled herself with something she’d read back in the days she still read about the Whatchamacallit, by the man who threw himself down the stairs: The good people died.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2011