Example Sentences

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Perhaps our political views will change, our cultural fears dissipate, and our treatment of strangers will improve, as we will have adopted a new sense of oneness.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2016

“After an 18-month moratorium on new cell sites that will end this June,” Mr. Loranger said, “Glendale will have adopted one of the most stringent celltower-siting ordinances in the state of California.”

From New York Times • May 7, 2010

“Even if you’ve been successful at eliminating the threat that they pose, it doesn’t mean every single person ever affiliated with the group will have adopted a new worldview.”

From Washington Post

But the Common Market countries, which by then will have adopted uniform external tariffs, are in no mood to wait until 1967 to move ahead with the next stage of economic integration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ten years hence half the London journals will have adopted it. 

From Tommy and Co. by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)