Example Sentences

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If the court issues its decision in the Colorado case on Monday, it will have acted within a month of hearing arguments.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2024

“So it is the sort of thing that evolution will have acted on because animals that communicate efficiently are expending less energy.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2020

For the first time in 20 years, Congress will have acted on a bipartisan basis to vote for significant new revenue.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2013

The purgings will have acted with similar effects; and, what is more, they will have cleared the primæ viæ, and rendered the circulation of the abdominal apparatus more easy.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

You, at any rate, will have acted properly.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel