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Your 80-year-old disabled sister, for example, may have more of a need for this house.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Julie Su, Mamdani’s deputy mayor for economic justice, referenced Shorris’s experience going after tax cheats as an example of the kind of work that fits into the mayor’s agenda for economic justice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I do think he gets it, absolutely compared to other politicians, compared to Starmer for example, I think he's a lot more charismatic," said Megan.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But Ross said it was one example of how Reilly would search for creative ways to achieve his client’s goals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
For example, last night I ported to Aderlaine Giverny’s house so we could go star watching on the riverfront.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
And there are not-too-distant examples of companies renegotiating or extending contracts in times of market stress, when their customers don’t need as much of the things they make.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The multi-club model would have followed the examples of Chelsea and Manchester City, whose owners also operate clubs in other territories.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
There are a few examples that are debatable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
They expect its accuracy to improve as more confirmed examples of paper mill activity become available.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
The Mayan stepped pyramids of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and I. M. Pei's glass entrance to the Louvre in Paris are but two examples of the pyramid shape of different times in different cultures.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
“We’ve made tremendous progress, and that progress is exampled all across the state of California — but not equally,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Among the new locations are any place children “gather,” with exampled such as playgrounds, daycare facilities and school bus stops.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
The Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed.
From Burke by Morley, John
What this may be is best exampled by our harlequinades, in which very much of Boccaccio's bent still survives.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they were indeed not blooms insensitive but actually ‘poor girls neglected.’
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest
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