Example Sentences

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Fortunately, there are people that are asking those questions, and it’s going to be very exciting, in 20 or 30 years, to see what they will have discovered.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

In the context of prolonging our health, this means that nature will have discovered many ways of combating the inherently destructive processes of life, such as free-radical damage and protein misfolding.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2022

In light of this, de Chardin said that if human beings ever harness the energies of love, then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

From Reuters • May 19, 2018

If they test positive, Davis hopes that by then he and his team will have discovered other preventive treatments than stomach removal.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017

I suppose before she has been in school a full term she will have discovered the impracticability of her uncle's method of settling the vexed question as to the pronunciation of "either" and "neither."

From The American Child by McCracken, Elizabeth