Example Sentences

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After academy rule changes, 10 films will be nominated for best picture, and it’s possible that only a few of them will have opened traditionally in theaters.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

If Redinbo and his colleagues succeed, they will have opened the door to a class of drugs that can modify microbes with great precision.

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2020

About 800 new movies will have opened in New York by the end of the year, which is 11 percent fewer than were released a couple of years ago.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2019

By end of this week, he will have opened 20 offices in Iowa in the past three weeks and built a staff of 100 in the state, his campaign said.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2019

He will then marry, in order that he may attend Mothers' meetings by deputy, and cause his wife to make lavish purchases at a local bazaar, which he will have opened.

From Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. by Various