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"He was sent to prison for armed robbery.",
"The company sent me to the conference.",
"\u201cThere is a Ms. Jones here to see you.\u201d \u201c Send her in.\u201d",
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"They sent a limo to pick her up at the airport.",
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"His letter came hours after Conservatives lost seats to the opposition Labour Party and Liberal Democrats in areas of the country where the defeats will send jitters through the Tories and renew questions about Johnson\u2019s leadership. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"And in this day of digital comms, taking the time to write and send a note really makes a standout impression. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
"Klukowski had previously worked with conservative California lawyer John Eastman, who was behind the theory that the vice president could reject states\u2019 electors or send results back to the states for more consideration. \u2014 Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Easily make phone calls, send texts, and stream music and podcasts right from your wrist with the watch that more than 22,000 Amazon shoppers have given a perfect rating. \u2014 Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"But their patients deserve more too\u2014to be listened to, to have a sense of agency over what happens to their body, to be seen as more than problem archetypes to avoid or walking conditions to diagnose and send home. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Thunderstorms lashed the San Benito County area Wednesday evening, signalling that a monsoon had flowed in from the coast of Mexico \u2014which could possibly send ripples through the South Bay and Central Valley, one meteorologist said. \u2014 Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 June 2022",
"The justices could send the case back to the district court to get more facts -- such as how often people are denied concealed carry licenses in New York -- Chandler said, though noted that also seems unlikely. \u2014 Meredith Deliso, ABC News , 22 June 2022",
"Surgery may include removing sweat glands (typically done in the underarms) or cutting the nerves that send signals to sweat glands (typically done in the palms), per the AAD. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But one month after the tragedy, students, administrators and families came together for a proper send -off into life after high school. \u2014 Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News , 25 June 2022",
"The daytime talk show was given an emotional send -off from Sherri Shepherd, who has been the main celebrity filling in for the original host this season. \u2014 Justine Browning, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Blackmon had thrown Gonzalez out at the plate to end the fifth, an aggressive send by third-base coach Mark Hallberg on a flyball by Wilmer Flores, and Kapler was comfortable with it. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 June 2022",
"Such was the spirited send -off that greeted this year\u2019s batch of retiring NSO musicians \u2014 a slightly larger contingent and later celebration than usual because of delays caused by the pandemic. \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"The evening concluded with a send -off for CEO and President Donald C. Fry, who has led the Greater Baltimore Committee for 19 years. \u2014 Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun , 26 May 2022",
"The Bombshell star then gave a heartfelt send -off to DeGeneres, whose two decades in daytime TV are coming to a close. \u2014 Justine Browning, EW.com , 16 May 2022",
"On April 29, the couple headed from their San Diego second home to an Encinitas coffee shop for the official send -off. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"His part in Logan was as perfect a send -off for the character as anyone could have imagined. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 7 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cellular senescence was discovered by Hayflick and Moorhead in 1961. \u2014 Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Your skin can be sent into the senescence phase in several different ways, including internal aggressors (hormonal changes, stress, illness) and external factors like pollution or overexposure to the sun. \u2014 ELLE , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The Mellon Longevity Science Programme helps fund the research of Professor Lynne Cox into the senescence of the human immune system. \u2014 Calum Chace, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The ingredient is said to prevent skin cells from becoming sluggish, which results in dull, tired-looking skin (the fancy word for this phase is senescence ). \u2014 ELLE , 6 Jan. 2022",
"In an era in which maturity is derided as senescence , good drinks offer a counternarrative. \u2014 Eric Felten, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021",
"In both sexes, the grandparents benefit from the consequences of that energy allocation that slows senescence , especially those that are related to repair and maintenance. \u2014 Emily Willingham, Scientific American , 24 Nov. 2021",
"There\u2019s no dithering yet\u2014the senescence is almost undetectable. \u2014 Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic , 14 Nov. 2021",
"Alaska trees and shrubs will soon be done with their senescence for 2021. \u2014 Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News , 25 Sep. 2021"
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"She was his senior in rank.",
"high school juniors and seniors",
"Adjective",
"the senior vice president of marketing",
"She is a senior aide to the president.",
"a senior editor for the magazine",
"He recently became a senior partner in the accounting firm.",
"the men's senior baseball league",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"University of San Francisco\u2019s Jamaree Bouyea: A 6-1 22-year-old fifth-year senior who scored 36 points in this year\u2019s NCAA Tournament against Murray State, averaging 17.3 points this past season, at .367 on 3-pointers. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 24 June 2022",
"Cano, a senior , was the Great Northwest Athletic Conference champion in the heptathlon in the spring. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 24 June 2022",
"The Cavaliers used the No. 14 pick of the 2022 NBA Draft on a senior in Kansas\u2019 Ochai Agbaji. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
"Drafted as a senior by the Diamondbacks in the 8th round of the 2009 draft, Goldschmidt was on clubs\u2019 radar more because of his production than his tools. \u2014 Tony Blengino, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Last season\u2019s team \u2014 without a senior on the roster \u2014 went 17-16 and lost to Ballard in the first round of the regional. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 19 June 2022",
"In Oxford, Madeline Johnson, 17, said she was compelled to march in honor of her friend Madisyn Baldwin, an Oxford senior killed in November's shooting. \u2014 Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022",
"Ryan Bagdasarian, a senior from Glastonbury, stroked a two-run single to put Eastern ahead to stay in the fifth inning of the clinching game. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 7 June 2022",
"That approach has failed older generations, said Alyssah Yater, 17, another senior who has advocated in favor of the clinic. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The coach was disciplined by MLB senior vice president Michael Hill for making contact with Eddings and what MLB termed unsportsmanlike conduct during the exchange of lineup cards before Wednesday\u2019s game at the Chicago White Sox. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
"David Moore has been senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Micron since 2021. \u2014 Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The way out of the gas shortage is to allow gas stations to charge more, said Uwadiae Osadiaye, senior vice president, energy and industrials at FBNQuest Merchant Bank. \u2014 Chinedu Asadu, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Alcoholic beverages producer Beam Suntory has appointed former Avangrid chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of corporate communications Zsoka McDonald as chief communications officer. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe And Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"During the conference, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa AI at Amazon, demonstrated one way to leverage the voice assistant by mimicking the voice of a dead relative. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"During the second-day keynote, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist of Alexa AI at Amazon, showed off a feature being developed for Alexa. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"All indications are that Indianapolis will see pre-pandemic numbers of tourists, said Chris Gahl, senior vice president of marketing and communications for Visit Indy. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"Before the assembly ends, Eric Rodriguez, a senior vice president at the Latinx advocacy nonprofit UnidosUS, delivers a plea for ballot access. \u2014 Nathan Heller, Vogue , 22 June 2022"
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"Senior citizens qualify for a discount at the movie theater.",
"more and more senior citizens are living active, rewarding lives",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them. \u2014 Josh Fischman, Scientific American , 13 June 2022",
"Some tow truck drivers are even patrolling college towns, senior citizen complexes, neighborhoods populated by people of color and low-income communities in search of vehicles to take, Murray said. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The latest jab appeared on a billboard mimicking a Silver Alert, used when a senior citizen , especially one with dementia, is missing. \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022",
"North End face a different set of challenges, including low-income populations, multiple housing types from single-family to senior citizen complexes and persistent biases. \u2014 Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant , 22 May 2022",
"And the fact that Clare has met Henry at various ages but never as a senior citizen suggests a premature end lies ahead. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 11 May 2022",
"Baldwin seemed to miss a conspicuous distinction between himself and his generational peers\u2014for he, too, is a senior citizen \u2014who live in the area: his wealth and his power to negotiate with space-industry players. \u2014 David Rompf, The New Yorker , 24 Apr. 2022",
"That's what a senior citizen , a former nursing assistant with a broken arm and other medical conditions, was left to sleep on. \u2014 Fox News , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The council also voted to allow any senior citizen to buy medical marijuana without a doctor\u2019s note. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Feb. 2022"
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"1937, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Shanghai, officials announced on Thursday that students in junior and senior high school could return to in-person classes starting June 6. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 26 May 2022",
"At the senior high school artwork from students in grades 10-12 will be displayed throughout the lower level hallways, locker bays and 1400 wing art rooms. \u2014 Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer , 26 Apr. 2022",
"While not offering the same speed and elusiveness as Harris, Marburger is an accomplished runner, picking up 1,177 yards and 26 touchdowns during his senior high school season. \u2014 Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News , 10 May 2022",
"Smith said the district has posted the senior high school principal position both within and outside of the district. \u2014 Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The third-place prizes are $100 for the senior high school division, $50 for middle school, and $25 for elementary school. \u2014 cleveland , 17 Dec. 2021",
"A year ago, Mozzicato was getting ready for his senior high school season, having lost his junior year in Connecticut due to COVID with no idea what was coming. \u2014 Dom Amore, courant.com , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Alum Walt Lunsford has pledged a matching grant of $20,000 to be used to upgrade the baseball complex adjacent to Creekside Middle School \u2013 once used as the senior high school . \u2014 Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Boynton Beach resident and senior high school student Harrison Calder has participated in the sports broadcasting program since his freshman year. \u2014 Alex Kushel, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Oct. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The show seems to organize itself around at least two themes: the sensate body and the rigors of geometry. Exemplifying the former are three works by the venerable Barbara Hammer, a pioneer in representing lesbian sensuality, who died this year. \u2014 Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times , 16 Aug. 2019"
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"Her injury left her with no sensation in her legs.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The second-year NASCAR Cup Series team co-owned by Justin Marks and global sensation , Pitbull, has been the feel-good story of 2022. \u2014 Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic , 25 June 2022",
"Neuroscience teaches that the human capacity to experience feeling or sensation requires consciousness,, which develops between 24 and 28 weeks gestation. \u2014 Nancy S. Jecker, The Conversation , 23 June 2022",
"The actress, comedian and internet sensation will star in Church Girls, a comedy pilot that is inspired by her true-life experience. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
"Weinshanker argues that Lurhmann zeroes in on the cross-cultural innovations that made Presley a sensation . \u2014 Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"Inside the G League Ignite\u2019s home base stood more revered prep stars -- Australian sensation Dyson Daniels, Jaden Hardy, Michael Foster Jr., Fanbo Zeng and Scoot Henderson. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 23 June 2022",
"Now, almost 30 years after making Cheung an arthouse sensation with Irma Vep, Assayas has delivered Vikander one of the best roles of her career. \u2014 Mark Peikert, Town & Country , 20 June 2022",
"More recently, Marvel\u2019s sensation Black Panther, which grossed over $1.3 billion, evoked universal pride among the Black community. \u2014 Nyeema C. Harris, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
"After the 2021 season, Bird was second, only behind second-year sensation Sabrina Ionescu in jersey sales. \u2014 Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022"
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"She looked sensational in her new dress.",
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"Seydoux is sensational , an intensely sensual presence who has turned her past profession as a trauma surgeon into a passionate art form. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Made hungry by his shortcoming and confident by his comeback, Chen\u2019s performances across the team event and through the men\u2019s singles were sensational , even record-setting. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 Feb. 2022",
"In what became one of the most sensational \u2014 and controversial \u2014 murder cases in recent memory, Knox, then 20, was arrested in connection with Kercher's death along with her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito. \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"The true story, which Rosenbloom recounts in Dark Archives, is less sensational and more ambiguous, though not without its monsters. Continue reading for just $1 an issue. \u2014 Mike Jay, The New York Review of Books , 5 Nov. 2020",
"Books on Plath fell into two camps: the personal \u2014 even sensational \u2014 and the academic. \u2014 Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times , 29 Oct. 2020",
"Yankees left fielder Tim Locastro, recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre before the game, made a sensational diving catch in the sixth on a ball hit to left-center by Mancini. \u2014 Noah Trister, Hartford Courant , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Britney Spears\u2019 sensational career and topsy-turvy life story could be retold by\u2026Britney Spears. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Pumphrey passes former Wisconsin star Ron Dayne\u2019s mark of 6,397 yards on a 15-yard run early in the fourth quarter and wraps up his sensational career in his Nevada hometown with 6,405 yards. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Dec. 2021"
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"Cozy mysteries give you the benefits of more uncomfortable mysteries \u2014 the suspense, the puzzles \u2014 without the gore, the sensationalism , the foregrounded perversity. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"With its bland and faux-universal life lessons that cheaply ethicalize expensive sensationalism , the film comes off as a sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"Historians have worked hard in recent decades to ground these women\u2019s reputations in fact rather than sensationalism . \u2014 Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
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"And yet the couple still had to navigate a show that, for all its supposed idealism, was working hard to sensationalize their different backgrounds. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Using online tools to sensationalize his terror, and to invite participation and emulation, the 18-year-old broadcast his strike on the live-streaming service Twitch, using a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet. \u2014 Drew Harwell, Washington Post , 15 May 2022",
"Using online tools to sensationalize his terror, and to invite participation and emulation, the gunman broadcast his attack on the live-streaming service Twitch, using a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet. \u2014 Isaac Stanley-becker And Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Kay had reservations about the movie, fearful that Hollywood would sensationalize his story \u2014 a fear that wasn't totally unfounded \u2014 but Steven grew excited at the idea and wanted to move forward. \u2014 Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Would this script, written by Zach Baylin, authentically capture the Williams patriarch or further sensationalize the narrative that his larger-than-life personality had garnered in the press",
"Like our example above, scammers will sensationalize their messages with eye-catching topical issues designed to evoke an immediate response. \u2014 Ryan Shopp, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
"Tresch has painted a full landscape of the journalism of the time, describing the conflicts between writers who made serious scientific observations and those eager to sensationalize or misrepresent new discoveries. \u2014 Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 Aug. 2021",
"The tragic reason why RFK\u2019s campaign ended is well known, and this show doesn\u2019t sensationalize it at all. \u2014 courant.com , 23 Sep. 2020"
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"There is an unnerving sense now that technology is driving the culture rather than the reverse. Machines and sites and software are breeding at an exponential clip, and we hapless humans race around trying to adapt. \u2014 Steven Johnson , Discover , July 2006",
"The caricature of neurotic nuns who specialized in corporal punishment and guilt crumbles before the countless examples of women religious who made the difference in determining that a child would eat, or be safe, or have any sense of dignity at all. \u2014 Luke Timothy Johnson , Commonweal , 22 Sept. 2006",
"Because Updike shrinks from giving any real credence to the ideology that drives his plot (in both senses of that word), the book becomes a temporarily enthralling, but ultimately empty shaggy dog story. \u2014 Jonathan Raban , New York Review of Books , 13 July 2006",
"Less distinguished people experience a similar tangling of the senses , some reporting that they can taste the words they speak or see the colors of certain words or numbers. This confounding of perception\u2014called synesthesia\u2014was thought to affect at most about 4 percent of the population, but University College London psychologist Jamie Ward has uncovered the best evidence yet that we may all have a bit of synesthesia. \u2014 Kathryn Garfield , Discover , December 2006",
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"With very little provocation, magic might have been flying back and forth in an unpleasant and damaging manner. Sensing the danger, Kate stepped between them and raised her hands. \"Let us have no more of this. There is a confusion to be cleared up, and I cannot do that in the middle of a brannigan,\" she said. \u2014 John Morressy , Fantasy & Science Fiction , October/November 2004",
"In Pecnik, he had instantly sensed a kindred spirit. As a boy Pecnik had strapped homemade parachutes to hamsters and tossed them (without harm) from his sixth-story bedroom window; by the time he joined the Croatian national team he was making his own jumpsuits. \u2014 William Speed Weed , Popular Science , July 2003",
"She immediately sensed my dislike.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"With no sense of what the future might bring, Sirad remains gripped by the past. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Gay people, bikers, rednecks\u2014basically angry people with a good sense of humor. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 30 June 2022",
"But opponents in Hong Kong say the Hong Kong Palace Museum is also a propaganda tool, designed to counter the localist streak inherent to Hong Kong identity and instill Hong Kongers with a sense of Chinese national pride. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"Mireya is smart, direct with a great sense of humor. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 29 June 2022",
"Just watching Sam explore with an honest and radical sense of self. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Providing customers with a sense of ease and security encourages them to keep coming back. \u2014 Chris Shipferling, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"And like SpongeBob, the 24-year-old Gonzalez approaches life with an admirable sense of joy. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 26 June 2022",
"One Auburn 2023 target recently left his official visit from Jordan-Hare with a sense of wonder. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
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"Human skin is soft and stretchy and has millions of nerve endings that sense heat and touch. \u2014 Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American , 30 June 2022",
"The researchers then tested whether each of these compounds could trigger a nerve impulse from the mosquitoes\u2019 antennae to their brains, indicating that mosquitoes can sense the chemical. \u2014 Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 June 2022",
"Here\u2019s what happens: Your skin has special receptors that sense the cold and send messages to your brain telling you it\u2019s time to warm up. \u2014 Julie Stewart, Men's Health , 29 June 2022",
"Could church leaders somehow sense the divine feminine reawakening",
"Any critique of the role religion plays in justifying barbarism and oppression, however, is muddled by the fact that those who can sense the ruling class\u2019s worldliness and corruption hardly come off better. \u2014 Jess Bergman, The New Republic , 22 June 2022",
"But today's consumer craves authenticity and can sense a stock photo with frightening accuracy. \u2014 Patrick Nycz, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Instead, an Umwelt is specifically the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience\u2014its perceptual world. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"But how could Reva herself not ever sense this or worry that she was being played like a fiddle"
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"Like so many others, I am heartbroken by the senseless gun violence that has taken the lives of innocent victims in recent weeks. \u2014 Timothy Dolan, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"There is no justification for this senseless gun violence. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 4 June 2022",
"Unspeakable and commonplace; another senseless tragedy, another news cycle in the United States. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 28 May 2022",
"The massacre of 19 children and two teachers Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, hit close to home and left both coaches searching for meaning from another senseless tragedy. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Social-emotional strategies, including anti-bullying initiatives, also do not appear to forestall senseless tragedy. \u2014 Dana Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"The deadliest shooting since a gunman killed 20 children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, the Uvalde massacre will be remembered for the innocent lives lost to senseless violence. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 27 May 2022",
"So the subject of school-age children again falling victim to senseless gun violence resonates with Barnes personally. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"My heart goes out to everyone harmed by this senseless violence, directly or indirectly. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022"
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"Like so many others, I am heartbroken by the senseless gun violence that has taken the lives of innocent victims in recent weeks. \u2014 Timothy Dolan, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
"There is no justification for this senseless gun violence. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 4 June 2022",
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"The massacre of 19 children and two teachers Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, hit close to home and left both coaches searching for meaning from another senseless tragedy. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Social-emotional strategies, including anti-bullying initiatives, also do not appear to forestall senseless tragedy. \u2014 Dana Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
"The deadliest shooting since a gunman killed 20 children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, the Uvalde massacre will be remembered for the innocent lives lost to senseless violence. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 27 May 2022",
"So the subject of school-age children again falling victim to senseless gun violence resonates with Barnes personally. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 May 2022",
"My heart goes out to everyone harmed by this senseless violence, directly or indirectly. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022"
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"Likewise, its visual grammar privileges an off-kilter sensibility that keys us into the sense that something is always slightly off. \u2014 Manuel Betancourt, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Underneath the brutality, a gothic sensibility informs this allegory gone awry. \u2014 Hanif Abdurraqib, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"There is also a feeling or mood or sensibility that is beyond food-specific. \u2014 Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The stretch includes an outpost of the no-frills regional chain grocer Market Basket and a smattering of businesses that capture Union Square\u2019s indie sensibility . \u2014 Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"With two teenage children, the couple had previously lived downtown in lofts and were eager to bring their minimal sensibility uptown. \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"Arnold's sensibility mixes classic influences from his upbringing in London with the relaxed and laid-back energy of his current home in Los Angeles\u2014and design instincts that resemble plain good fashion sense. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 31 May 2022",
"The show, after all, has a distinct personality and sensibility . \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Raimi\u2019s visual sensibility there is manifested in wide-eyed, candidly inflected closeups that convey his own attentive fascination at the strangeness of simultaneously existing multiple worlds and characters\u2019 multiple identities. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022"
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"Likewise, its visual grammar privileges an off-kilter sensibility that keys us into the sense that something is always slightly off. \u2014 Manuel Betancourt, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Underneath the brutality, a gothic sensibility informs this allegory gone awry. \u2014 Hanif Abdurraqib, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"There is also a feeling or mood or sensibility that is beyond food-specific. \u2014 Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The stretch includes an outpost of the no-frills regional chain grocer Market Basket and a smattering of businesses that capture Union Square\u2019s indie sensibility . \u2014 Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"With two teenage children, the couple had previously lived downtown in lofts and were eager to bring their minimal sensibility uptown. \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"Arnold's sensibility mixes classic influences from his upbringing in London with the relaxed and laid-back energy of his current home in Los Angeles\u2014and design instincts that resemble plain good fashion sense. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 31 May 2022",
"The show, after all, has a distinct personality and sensibility . \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 24 May 2022",
"Raimi\u2019s visual sensibility there is manifested in wide-eyed, candidly inflected closeups that convey his own attentive fascination at the strangeness of simultaneously existing multiple worlds and characters\u2019 multiple identities. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 May 2022"
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"Many sensible policies\u2014say, mask mandates that toggle on in grocery stores, public transport, and other essential spaces when community transmission is high\u2014seem unlikely in this political climate. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"Folding the rear seat back to turn the Yaris into a two-seater with a useful amount of cargo space is sensible , considering that nobody would be very happy in that back seat anyway. \u2014 Dan Carney, Ars Technica , 22 June 2022",
"The sensible thing is to get both desserts and share. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"To many, her stoicism embodies the British instinct to get on with it, and her sensible manner reflects the sang-froid that many Britons admire. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"And politicians who do nothing to pass sensible gun laws have blood on their hands for every single mass shooting since Sandy Hook. \u2014 Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"For all that, the goal of implementing sensible gun-control laws is not hopeless\u2014most Americans favor restrictions such as universal background checks. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"There are all sorts of designations that depart from what might seem sensible . \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Apr. 2022",
"But though the abstention may appear sensible \u2014why take sides in a far-off conflict",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"When a Bernie Sanders supporter and MSNBC aficionado nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise at a baseball practice in 2017, no one sensible blamed the anti-Republican rhetoric of Mr. Sanders or MSNBC for the gun violence. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Those settling in America in the 17th century thought idleness was sinful, and a six-day workweek sensible . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
"The final text adopted by the two chambers of Congress incorporates most of Gillibrand\u2019s ideas for a Pentagon UFO office, which range from the sensible to the fantastical. \u2014 Jason Colavito, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
"And there may be larger market forces at work that make a single-source contractor for HLS sensible . \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Is the Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n paddle-shift-into-gear sensible ",
"But if the jury is still out, things would need to change on several fronts in order to make retaining Locadia sensible and feasible. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 27 May 2021",
"This decision, while sensible given the popular stigma surrounding psychedelics, may also increase the business challenges facing MindMed and Compass. \u2014 Jeff John Roberts, Fortune , 18 Feb. 2021",
"Since late November, tens of thousands of farmers have camped on Delhi\u2019s borders to protest sensible but politically risky new laws that give the private sector a bigger role in agriculture. \u2014 Sadanand Dhume, WSJ , 28 Dec. 2020"
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"Many sensible policies\u2014say, mask mandates that toggle on in grocery stores, public transport, and other essential spaces when community transmission is high\u2014seem unlikely in this political climate. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 27 June 2022",
"Folding the rear seat back to turn the Yaris into a two-seater with a useful amount of cargo space is sensible , considering that nobody would be very happy in that back seat anyway. \u2014 Dan Carney, Ars Technica , 22 June 2022",
"The sensible thing is to get both desserts and share. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"To many, her stoicism embodies the British instinct to get on with it, and her sensible manner reflects the sang-froid that many Britons admire. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"And politicians who do nothing to pass sensible gun laws have blood on their hands for every single mass shooting since Sandy Hook. \u2014 Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"For all that, the goal of implementing sensible gun-control laws is not hopeless\u2014most Americans favor restrictions such as universal background checks. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"There are all sorts of designations that depart from what might seem sensible . \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Apr. 2022",
"But though the abstention may appear sensible \u2014why take sides in a far-off conflict",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"When a Bernie Sanders supporter and MSNBC aficionado nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise at a baseball practice in 2017, no one sensible blamed the anti-Republican rhetoric of Mr. Sanders or MSNBC for the gun violence. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"Those settling in America in the 17th century thought idleness was sinful, and a six-day workweek sensible . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
"The final text adopted by the two chambers of Congress incorporates most of Gillibrand\u2019s ideas for a Pentagon UFO office, which range from the sensible to the fantastical. \u2014 Jason Colavito, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
"And there may be larger market forces at work that make a single-source contractor for HLS sensible . \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Is the Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n paddle-shift-into-gear sensible ",
"But if the jury is still out, things would need to change on several fronts in order to make retaining Locadia sensible and feasible. \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 27 May 2021",
"This decision, while sensible given the popular stigma surrounding psychedelics, may also increase the business challenges facing MindMed and Compass. \u2014 Jeff John Roberts, Fortune , 18 Feb. 2021",
"Since late November, tens of thousands of farmers have camped on Delhi\u2019s borders to protest sensible but politically risky new laws that give the private sector a bigger role in agriculture. \u2014 Sadanand Dhume, WSJ , 28 Dec. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Although hyaluronic acid is extremely gently on the skin, some serums are made with tons of additional ingredients in order to maximize the benefits, which may end up irritating sensitive skin. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 29 June 2022",
"But a dime-size amount after cleansing delivered smooth results\u2014a stubborn dry patch on my nose was swiftly eradicated\u2014and didn\u2019t irritate my sensitive skin the way some scrubs do. \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 28 June 2022",
"Don't use any bleach, fabric softener, or any other chemicals that can be harmful to sensitive skin. \u2014 Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"Monte is also often captured trotting around the farm in a bright pink mask and matching boots, which Ruggles calls fly gear, to protect his sensitive skin from fly bites. \u2014 Ariana Garcia, Chron , 27 June 2022",
"Now, watch Sydney Sweeney's 10-minute beauty routine for sensitive skin: Our bad! \u2014 Angela Trakoshis, Allure , 21 June 2022",
"For sensitive skin: Choose gentle body washes that contain no fragrance, masking fragrance or irritants. \u2014 Dori Price, Good Housekeeping , 20 June 2022",
"Sensitive skin: Those with sensitive skin should try soothing ingredients like colloidal oatmeal, vitamin E, or aloe vera, and stay away from harsher options. \u2014 Nikhita Mahtani, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"If your dad or partner has sensitive skin, consider gifting him this popular luxe and soothing moisturizer from the experts at Augustinus Bader. \u2014 Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As a result, Faucher said, job losses are more likely to be concentrated in areas like housing and other durable goods that are interest-rate sensitive , as opposed to services consumption. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 4 May 2022",
"Just as impressive as Smit-McPhee\u2019s sensitive , moving performance\u2014which earned him a best supporting actor nod at the Oscars this weekend\u2014has been his sartorial flair on the red carpet. \u2014 Vogue , 25 Mar. 2022",
"In particular, investors should avoid those bonds that are considered interest-rate sensitive . \u2014 Brian Menickella, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Rodriguez said the free streaming plan would be an ideal way to reach his target audience, which is young, tech savvy and price sensitive . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Rodriguez said the free streaming plan would be an ideal way to reach his target audience, which is young, tech savvy and price sensitive . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Rodriguez said the free streaming plan would be an ideal way to reach his target audience, which is young, tech savvy and price sensitive . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Rodriguez said the free streaming plan would be an ideal way to reach his target audience, which is young, tech savvy and price sensitive . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Rodriguez said the free streaming plan would be an ideal way to reach his target audience, which is young, tech savvy and price sensitive . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021"
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"Image sensors are used in digital cameras.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Tuesday test had been delayed for several days due to a problem with an oxidizer tank sensor . \u2014 Dasl Yoon, WSJ , 21 June 2022",
"Each press of an OmniPoint 2.0 switch sends a magnet down the switch's stem, bringing it closer to a Hall effect sensor at the base. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 21 June 2022",
"The camcorder itself has a CMOS sensor that can record videos in ultra-HD at 30 FPS and 1080p at 60 FPS. \u2014 Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics , 19 June 2022",
"Forensic engineering firm Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis found in April that a seat sensor had been manually adjusted to allow the ride to operate with a greater opening between the seat and the safety harness. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"To refresh your memory, the Series 7 performs 20% faster than the previous Apple Watch models and has a blood oxygen sensor . \u2014 John Thompson, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"The quad camera array is completed with a 48 megapixel ultra wide sensor and a 5x periscope zoom camera. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Designed for kids ages 4 and up, the animatronic figure is equipped with a sensor that activates 45 light, sound and movement combinations in three play modes. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"In fact, some higher-end models from the likes of Audi and BMW have a sensor that can tell if gasoline is premium or regular, according to Jil McIntosh at Autotrader, and adjust the engine accordingly. \u2014 Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022"
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"the art installation combines light and sound effects to create a unique sensorial experience",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Of course, Cohen makes pants, knits, jumpsuits, and even suits\u2014but the sensorial floral dresses have become key to his lexicon. \u2014 Kristen Bateman, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Those with a sensorial craving for sweets will love the creamy, mouthwatering Vanilla Sugarcane Fragrance. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 27 May 2022",
"Try one today for a truly sensorial shaving experience. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
"Beyond sensorial gratification, facial steaming's skin-care benefits are actually quite bountiful. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 14 Feb. 2022",
"With the push of a button on the aluminum-zinc handle, the ultra-precise razor activates and delivers instant soothing warmth for a more comfortable shave and sensorial experience. \u2014 Scott Kramer, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"French helmer Bertrand Mandico has achieved a cult following for his gender-bending sensorial surrealist visions, with more than 20 short films and two feature films completed to date. \u2014 Martin Dale, Variety , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The salve\u2019s soothing effects are compounded by the lavender and eucalyptus essential oils, giving you a dreamy sensorial experience. \u2014 Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online , 29 Oct. 2020",
"These large-scale works \u2014 from mirror works to programmed color changes throughout the exhibition \u2014 will transform the space into one that complements the artwork to provide a sensorial experience for all viewers. \u2014 Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic , 7 Jan. 2022"
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"Exposure to loud noise is a common cause of another kind of hearing loss, sensorineural . \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Nico was born in March 2020 and was diagnosed with Down syndrome and profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The majority of patients (75%) received steroids, which is standard treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss. \u2014 Nina Shapiro, Forbes , 23 May 2021",
"The condition in question is known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss, or SSNHL. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 May 2021",
"And shares of Frequency Therapeutics plunged 78% on March 23 after the company found its lead drug aimed at treating sensorineural hearing loss didn\u2019t lead to any hearing benefit when given in a four-dose schedule. \u2014 Karen Langley, WSJ , 21 Apr. 2021",
"Shortly after birth, Caruso was diagnosed with bilateral moderate to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss, a common type of permanent hearing loss that stems from damage to the inner ear. \u2014 Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com , 19 July 2019",
"Frequency is targeting sensorineural hearing loss, the most common form of hearing loss. \u2014 Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com , 17 July 2019",
"Shortly after birth, Caruso was diagnosed with bilateral moderate to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss, a common type of permanent hearing loss that stems from damage to the inner ear. \u2014 Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com , 19 July 2019"
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"One of the ways Egan re-creates the sensorium of the internet is through huge, almost comical time jumps that reflect the bizarre processes of reconnection that digital life facilitates. \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic , 10 May 2022",
"At times, this disorientation recreates the sensorium of misinformation that has defined this conflict. \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The Living Mountain prescribes a philosophy of bodily thinking, in which the body is a sensorium and the senses are avenues to knowledge. \u2014 Connor Goodwin, The Atlantic , 11 Apr. 2020",
"But the new sensorium allowed an exploration of the ocean\u2019s depths that became crucial to science and commerce. \u2014 The Economist , 10 Mar. 2018",
"Already there are people trying to embed new senses\u2014and make no mistake of it, GPS is already an addition to the human sensorium , albeit still in an external device\u2014directly into our minds and bodies. \u2014 Tim O'reilly, The Atlantic , 27 Oct. 2017",
"For isolated American audiences, the sprawling circus collapsed the entire globe into a pungent, thrilling, educational sensorium of sound, smell and color, right outside their doorsteps. \u2014 Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian , 22 Mar. 2017",
"For isolated American audiences, the sprawling circus collapsed the entire globe into a pungent, thrilling, educational sensorium of sound, smell and color, right outside their doorsteps. \u2014 Janet M. Davis, Smithsonian , 22 Mar. 2017"
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"The exhibition is a multi- sensory immersive experience. \u2014 Chloe Mcgowan, The Indianapolis Star , 30 June 2022",
"Turn even the plainest shower into a full-on sensory spa experience with these TikTok favorite products. \u2014 Seventeen , 22 June 2022",
"Join Jason of Whisper Shifter for a relaxed sensory experience on a forest therapy walk. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 22 June 2022",
"The multi- sensory experience kicked off in NYC in March. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 11 June 2022",
"Holleran, like his narrator, dwells less on causes than feelings \u2014 impending death as a sensory experience. \u2014 Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"There is no head, no fingers, no toes, no eyes, no sensory organs. \u2014 Extra Spicy Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 May 2022",
"Spiders use their incredibly strong and complex silk as a kind of extension of their sensory organs, gathering information about the world, and their prey, through vibration. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Feb. 2022",
"The worms form posterior segments with buds (or gametes) that can develop features like eyes and sensory organs. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 28 Jan. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The construction will soon offer a new space dedicated for parents and caregivers, as well as a quiet sensory area for campers. \u2014 Jessika Harkay, courant.com , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The playground has rubberized footing, a sensory area , adaptive playground equipment, a picnicking area, areas divided for the younger and older children and a spray park. \u2014 Brandi Addison, Dallas News , 30 June 2021",
"The event will have children\u2019s activities, a sensory area , and resources for families. \u2014 Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com , 3 Apr. 2021",
"Quiet rooms, low- sensory areas , and noise-canceling headphones will also be available if someone is experiencing sensory overload. \u2014 Erin Mccarthy, Philly.com , 14 Apr. 2018",
"The park also offers low sensory areas , noise-cancelling headphones and officials have developed a pre-visit sensory guide to help families plan activities that suits their child\u2019s needs. \u2014 Char Adams, PEOPLE.com , 4 Apr. 2018"
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"Lempicka was a painter who fled the Russian Revolution and built an international career in bohemian Paris with her sensuous paintings. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"At the other end of the day, the village could be seen embroiled in long, sensuous , burning sunsets whose atmospheres and shades of passion passed one after another over the mesmerized faces of the houses, while our own house sat in prim shadow. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Page after page, Walker writes some of the best prose in the genre, attending to both human relationships and the texture of everyday life with a sensuous appreciation. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Lyon traded chairs with Espy, and her violin soared above the group with a sensuous cantabile in these numbers. \u2014 Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"The scene is joyful and sensuous \u2014a young person exploring and becoming aware of their own body. \u2014 Seemab Gul, The New Yorker , 25 May 2022",
"His interactions with Biba come to us in fits and starts, these tender, sensuous moments frequently interrupted by abrupt shifts in perspective. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"But Langr\u00e9e held the tempo at a steady, stubborn and sensuous plod \u2014 allowing everything to brighten and bask. \u2014 Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"This central theme flows through the hotel\u2019s design, gastronomy, and personality, all bathed in a sensuous Prussian blue. \u2014 Laura Parker, Forbes , 18 May 2022"
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"The defendant was sentenced and fined.",
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"If convicted, both face a life sentence in federal prison, where parole is not an option. \u2014 Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal , 30 June 2022",
"Khalil faces a mandatory minimum term of seven years in prison and a potential life sentence , according to federal prosecutors. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 29 June 2022",
"He was convicted of second degree murder in Suffolk Superior Court on March 21, 1975, and paroled from a life sentence in 1989, according to court records. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"The charges against both men could result in a life sentence or the death penalty. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
"If one juror opposes death, the former Stoneman Douglas student will receive a life sentence . \u2014 Terry Spencer, ajc , 29 June 2022",
"There, his reporting freed two innocent people from incarceration, including one man who was 20 years into a life sentence and one facing life. \u2014 Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022",
"Holder, a Rollin 60s Crip gang member who last lived in Long Beach, faces a de facto life sentence if convicted of murder and attempted murder for killing Hussle and wounding two other men. \u2014 James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"Conviction on one of the homicide charges is punishable by a life sentence plus five years. \u2014 Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"As part of his plea deal, a federal judge will likely sentence him to 21 years in prison. \u2014 Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun , 23 June 2022",
"Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Joy Malek Oldfield will sentence Deel on June 10. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 31 May 2022",
"Judge Susan Baker Ross is scheduled to sentence Allen in the next two months. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Chris Wagner will sentence him today. \u2014 Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer , 13 June 2022",
"Gary Kamen agreed to plead guilty during a Wednesday hearing before Judge Daniel Shanes, who is scheduled to sentence Kamen next month. \u2014 Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The London court is set to sentence Glencore on June 21, the SFO said. \u2014 Dave Michaels, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"The plea deal will sentence Chauvin to between 20 and 25 years in prison for violating Floyd's civil rights, per the Post. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 5 May 2022",
"Judges sentence people under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, a strict formula that dictates the number of months in prison a person will get. \u2014 Walter Pavlo, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sententia feeling, opinion, from *sentent-, *sentens , irregular present participle of sentire to feel \u2014 more at sense":"Noun"
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"\u02c8sen-t\u1d4ans",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His final version ends on a sentence fragment \u2014a dramatic reminder that arcadias may well be unfinishable. \u2014 Tess Taylor, WSJ , 7 May 2021",
"Roger is partial to sentence fragments ; Antonia has to supply the rest. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Apr. 2020",
"Manuscript Writer constructs an introduction, for example, by pulling sentences and sentence fragments from a set of open-access references and laying them out in what appears to be no particular order. \u2014 Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine , 12 Dec. 2017",
"Even the emoluments clause, little more than a sentence fragment , gets more notice nowadays. \u2014 James W. Lucas, National Review , 8 Dec. 2017"
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"a handbook of sententiae and advice for those about to enter the state of matrimony"
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"a smug and sententious writer",
"a sententious crank who has written countless letters to the editor about the decline in family values",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead each event\u2014from lethal accidents to vicious murders to Category 5 hurricanes\u2014is immediately sorted into its prelabeled moral narrative file, each one full of similarly useful sententious parables. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 30 May 2022",
"Dialogue is rendered in the pseudo-profound pronouncements that have become the sententious lingua franca of the hero\u2019s quest. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This melodramatic narrative fits right into American indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt\u2019s domain, but Francis Lee is a less sententious proselytizer for gay life. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 13 Nov. 2020",
"These are the sententious keynote presentations, used to dazzle investors or recruit employees, that try to get a startup to seem like a holy mission. \u2014 Wired , 22 Oct. 2019",
"What\u2019s more, Charles\u2019s sententious interpretation of noblesse oblige leaves him open to the charge of overstepping the constitutional boundaries of his position. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Heller, The New Yorker , 31 Mar. 2017"
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"Instead each event\u2014from lethal accidents to vicious murders to Category 5 hurricanes\u2014is immediately sorted into its prelabeled moral narrative file, each one full of similarly useful sententious parables. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 30 May 2022",
"Dialogue is rendered in the pseudo-profound pronouncements that have become the sententious lingua franca of the hero\u2019s quest. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This melodramatic narrative fits right into American indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt\u2019s domain, but Francis Lee is a less sententious proselytizer for gay life. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 13 Nov. 2020",
"These are the sententious keynote presentations, used to dazzle investors or recruit employees, that try to get a startup to seem like a holy mission. \u2014 Wired , 22 Oct. 2019",
"What\u2019s more, Charles\u2019s sententious interpretation of noblesse oblige leaves him open to the charge of overstepping the constitutional boundaries of his position. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Heller, The New Yorker , 31 Mar. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lemoine\u2019s idea of sentience is rooted in an expansive definition of person-hood. \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"Blake Lemoine maintains that the bot has achieved sentience . \u2014 Longreads , 16 June 2022",
"In essence, people are assigning human-like sentience to today\u2019s AI, despite the undeniable and inarguable fact that no such AI exists as yet. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"But Google is not the only one that pushed back on Lemoine's tale of sentience . \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"In essence, people are assigning human-like sentience to today\u2019s AI, despite the undeniable and inarguable fact that no such AI exists as yet. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"In essence, people are assigning human-like sentience to today\u2019s AI, despite the undeniable and inarguable fact that no such AI exists as yet. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"In essence, people are assigning human-like sentience to today\u2019s AI, despite the undeniable and inarguable fact that no such AI exists as yet. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
"Yet their expressive behavior has a familiar tinge of sentience . \u2014 Nicole Acheampong, The Atlantic , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"sentient of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane",
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"Snowy and Crash are among the Legion of Zoom, a team of sentient vehicles brought to computerized life by Badcomputer, the new ultimate computer of the DC Universe. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"Players traverse surreal worlds and duke it out with sentient poker chips, demonic clowns and boxing frogs across elaborate, multistage boss battles. \u2014 Alyse Stanley, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"The idea of forcing someone to embark on a challenge as emotionally, financially, and physically draining as parenting strikes me as beyond monstrous \u2014 certainly, far more so than opting for the death of a cluster of non- sentient cells. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 3 May 2022",
"This new, seemingly sentient Qai Qai could lip-sync to viral videos like a TikTok star and wave from an F. A. O. Schwarz toy convertible like a mini influencer. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Wise has been canny about framing his current case around a single elephant\u2014not all elephants or all sentient animals. \u2014 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don\u2019t choose to be a racist. \u2014 Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don\u2019t choose to be a racist. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Some of those ideas being: hot-dog fingers, a raccoon voiced by Randy Newman, a fanny pack used as a lethal weapon, sentient boulders and Curtis playing an IRS agent. \u2014 Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The shift in sentiment has helped to drive the MSCI China Index, the broadest measure of China stocks on mainland and offshore markets, up more than 20% since March 15. \u2014 Clay Chandler, Fortune , 27 June 2022",
"The group also recently performed at the Grammys, headlined a residency in Las Vegas, and visited the White House to discuss the rise in anti-Asian sentiment in the United States. \u2014 Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
"The big question is whether this decline in sentiment will lead to a drop in actual purchases of goods and services. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 22 June 2022",
"Andrea Harvey of Chicago echoes a similar sentiment . \u2014 Faith Karimi, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"This may have led to an increase in anti-Western sentiment in other regions outside Francophone west Africa. \u2014 Tom Collins, Quartz , 6 June 2022",
"The uptick in pro-choice identification can largely be attributed to an increase in the sentiment among younger adults and women, the polling organization said. \u2014 Kelsey Butler, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"For now, the stock market has narrowly avoided falling into a bear market, typically defined as a 20 percent decline from a recent high that signifies a severe downturn in sentiment about the market and the economy. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"The recent changes in shareholder sentiment will likely cause companies and their audit committees to consider switching auditors, said Jonathan Shipman, associate professor of accounting at the University of Arkansas. \u2014 Mark Maurer, WSJ , 31 May 2022"
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"He has a sentimental attachment to his old high school.",
"She saved her wedding gown for sentimental reasons.",
"He has sentimental ideas about the past.",
"I tend to get very sentimental when I think about my childhood.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kenley Jansen was also facing his former team this weekend, though the sight of the Dodgers no longer seems so sentimental for the first-year Braves closer. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
"Kate also wears sentimental accessories in the painting. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 25 June 2022",
"The breezy, sentimental collaboration with the BTS superstar comes off Puth\u2019s forthcoming album Charlie, scheduled for release some time this year. \u2014 Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
"The item with the most sentimental value was his grandmother's Ray-Ban aviators. \u2014 Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"An army of literary artists supplied sentimental prose and poetry. \u2014 Charles Austin Beard, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Trying to return bookmarks to their rightful owners For sentimental items, such as pictures and letters, or financial items like bills, checks and cash, Maddox said the library will attempt to contact the last patron who checked out the book. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
"Yet his virtuosity comes with a strangely sentimental , self-regarding air; the entire film is tinged with a cloying glaze that seeps into the interstices of the drama and limits his characters\u2019 range of motion. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 16 June 2022",
"For a sentimental spin on graduation gifting, look no further than this retro reel viewer. \u2014 Lauren Gray, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2022"
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"the sentimentalism of 19th-century art",
"the novel's sentimentalism bored me",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The whole effectively functions as a scrapbook, but without the nostalgia or sentimentalism . \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Feb. 2022",
"This is no sentimentalism : Americans have long defined themselves as a family. \u2014 Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Now, the difficulty is compassion can often lead a biographer or a historian into a sloppy sentimentalism , sometimes even into maybe what is worse, and that is a kind of guilty empathy and sympathy with your subject. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Much sentimentalism has attached itself to Ashley\u2019s sack and the poetry of Ruth\u2019s embroidered inscription, but the sack was originally an emergency kit, born out of despairing necessity. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2021",
"Nixon critics tend to associate his name not just with lying and abuse of power, but also with maudlin sentimentalism and elaborate excuse-making. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 4 Sep. 2020",
"The trouble is that, mixed up in all this, there is a heartfelt sentimentalism (understandable, given the circumstances) and political opportunism. \u2014 Madeleine Kearns, National Review , 14 Apr. 2020",
"With the rise of the middle class in the 17th and 18th centuries, sentimentalism became a movement that emphasized compassion as a desirable character trait, causing an increase in the expressions of sentiment. \u2014 cleveland , 10 Feb. 2020",
"The sentimentalism was mitigated by regular doses of bawdy humor, the targets of which were no doubt the envy of quite a number of spectators of both sexes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 July 2019"
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"the sentimentality of Romantic poetry",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The second act stumbles rather drippily into sentimentality , with Buddy\u2019s troubled relationship to his daughter (Shoshana Bean, in excellent voice) dragging things down. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"Emotion is everywhere in this story, and Darby and I discussed how that can sometimes spill into sentimentality . \u2014 Brendan O'meara, Longreads , 6 Apr. 2022",
"This is one of the keys to the two movies\u2019 appeal, how their worship of speed and noise gives them cover to wallow in macho sentimentality . \u2014 Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"The current brand is about joy and uplift, with a dash of sentimentality , all being presented by an upbeat and occasionally self-deprecating host who wants to ensure that everyone, audience and guest alike, has a little fun. \u2014 Mychal Denzel Smith, Men's Health , 3 June 2022",
"Into his 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond, Angell wrote with joy and enthusiasm\u2014and never sentimentality , which editor William Shawn warned him about all those years ago. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Bresson\u2019s film was, among other things, a rejection of on-screen sentimentality . \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"In Alys\u2019s hands, the inventiveness of children, sometimes in dangerous environments, arouses more than just sentimentality . \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"First-time feature director Matthew Saville largely stays away from sentimentality to highlight black humor instead. \u2014 Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Mar. 2022"
"Those who forget the past may be condemned to repeat it, but those who sentimentalize the past are rewarded with best-seller status. \u2014 Carlos Lozada, The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Keeping both feet firmly on the ground and refusing to sentimentalize an essentially unlikeable character, Brown triumphs as Charley\u2019s flinty mother. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, Variety , 3 Nov. 2021",
"This extinction engine does not sentimentalize or aestheticize the materials of the world. \u2014 Anne Boyer, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
"Unlike many Holocaust films that sentimentalize individual heroism, Caught by Night doesn\u2019t seek to inspire so much as to bear witness. \u2014 Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books , 20 Apr. 2020",
"Nothing if not a rigorous dialectician, Bong refuses to sentimentalize the Kims\u2019 togetherness or their poverty. \u2014 Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Nothing if not a rigorous dialectician, Bong refuses to sentimentalize the Kims\u2019 togetherness or their poverty. \u2014 Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2019",
"Tattoo of Revenge > Little Women Juli\u00e1n Hernandez\u2019s film noir turns male\u2013female empathy into a constantly inventive spectacle while Greta Gerwig\u2019s literary adaptation sentimentalizes bourgeois privilege as a woman\u2019s right. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 3 Jan. 2020",
"Nothing if not a rigorous dialectician, Bong refuses to sentimentalize the Kims\u2019 togetherness or their poverty. \u2014 Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 Oct. 2019"
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"The red, white and blue sentinel stands at attention amid an array of Fourth of July yard art that encircles the one-story house. \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 4 July 2022",
"One individual can act as a sentinel , watching out for hawks and other predators while others forage or watch the nest. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 26 June 2022",
"The sentinel posted at 37th Street and Whitehaven provided evidence for more than 17,000 photo tickets since March 2020, according to a D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles response to a public-information request from The Post. \u2014 Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"The palace, though scarred, was one of the few still standing, a refuge, a sentinel in a town that, like many others, had hoped cruelty would not visit and fresh graves would not be dug. \u2014 Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Two enormous palm trees stand sentinel on either end of the pool, bare and brown. \u2014 Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times , 15 Dec. 2021",
"To my back was an outrageous view of the Sphinx, a massive granite sentinel that towers ominously over the entire valley. \u2014 Emily Pennington, Outside Online , 24 Feb. 2021",
"Today, its imposing black walls and gray, tiered roofs stand sentinel over a bottle-green perimeter moat in the heart of Matsue's old quarter. \u2014 CNN , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Like a sentinel , the church has witnessed the evolution of its community from atop a hill. \u2014 Syra Ortiz- Blanes, sun-sentinel.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"However, on the wall there is only an enormous and exceedingly bad painting, in a heavy wooden frame, done primarily in weary shades of brown, depicting a Tuscan landscape with dim saints and sentinel cypresses and an unidentifiable bird on a bough. \u2014 John Banville, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
"This clinical strategy relies both on infected individuals coming to sentinel hospitals and medical authorities who are influential and persistent enough to raise the alarm. \u2014 Maureen Miller, The Conversation , 1 June 2021",
"Expanding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sentinel surveillance programs and other surveillance programs to offer tests not only to those who ask but also to those who may not know to ask is also on Biden's Plan to Combat Coronavirus. \u2014 USA Today , 2 Nov. 2020",
"And there are certain types of events or sentinel events that require a deeper dive before continuing to ensure the safety of current and future participants. \u2014 Adrian Hernandez, STAT , 14 Oct. 2020",
"Auburn continues to rely on self-reporting and sentinel testing to keep track of its numbers. \u2014 Giana Han, al , 22 Sep. 2020",
"It has been guarded every hour of every day since 1937 by elite Tomb Guard sentinels . \u2014 Jesse Ryan, USA TODAY , 29 May 2017",
"When Chinese leaders gaze out toward the Pacific, their panorama is obstructed by a string of military airfields, naval anchorages, radar emplacements and listening posts sentineled by U.S. forces and their allies. \u2014 Andrew Browne, WSJ , 14 Mar. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While the two-story house once stood like a sentry overlooking acres of cow pasture, the neighborhood is now replete with luxury housing, four-lane roads and a bustle worthy of a community just seven miles from downtown. \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"Just inside, standing sentry , are two life-size Madame Tussauds\u2013style figures of stereotypical twentieth-century flashers, replete with trench coats and veiny organs that jut from their trouser flies. \u2014 Sam Lipsyte, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
"For patients, owning an NFT of their medical data would be like creating a kind of sentry to guard that personal information. \u2014 Sara Harrison, Scientific American , 13 Apr. 2022",
"One full-time staff member works in development, funded by a two-year grant; the other three on payroll work part-time, including director Wil Brant, a Navy vet who watches over the library\u2019s operations with the quiet intensity of a sentry . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"At least four homes on a patch of land between Tanager and Warbler courts burned all the way through the basements, cars stuck inside garages, brick chimneys standing sentry , the ubiquitous, eerie landmarks of the West\u2019s post-fire landscapes. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Standing sentry outside the doors to the thick stone walled Great Room \u2014 said to be the former sugar boiling room \u2014 is a majestic weeping fig tree that, with its gnarled stature, appears far older than its mere 56 years. \u2014 Jeanine Barone, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Getting back to Ultron, all these sentry sightings do send a clear message. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Since the invasion, Drebot has not been able to help out with brewing himself, but spent some time serving in the Territorial Defence Forces manning a sentry post. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 9 Apr. 2022"
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"In this view, the brain operates like a telephone switchboard that maintains only reliable connections between incoming calls from our sense organs and outgoing messages to the muscles. \u2014 Matthew Schafer, Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2020",
"This has revealed the brain, the sense organs , sinuses, blood vessels, and nerves that are hidden inside the skull of T. rex. \u2014 Robert Clark, National Geographic , 2 June 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These are teenagers and senioritis is a real thing, for some, but there can be many explanations for a poor spring term. \u2014 Brennan Barnard, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"For people who aren\u2019t overjoyed about returning to pre-pandemic life, the darker side of senioritis might feel more applicable. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 15 Apr. 2021",
"This time of year normally finds high school seniors exhibiting signs of senioritis , with prom, graduation and the end of their secondary education on the horizon. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 6 May 2020",
"And XiuLi seems to be suffering from a particularly acute case of senioritis these days that is leading to trouble. \u2014 Steve Trumpeter, chicagotribune.com , 20 July 2019",
"Savvy Professors For most professors teaching senior classes, this isn\u2019t their first rodeo, and observing seniors with senioritis is nothing new. \u2014 Erin Nicole Celletti, Teen Vogue , 11 Jan. 2018"
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"What\u2019s more, airline pilots\u2019 job assignments are highly seniority -based. \u2014 Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc , 16 June 2022",
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"The order of questions will be determined by seniority . \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Employees who answer taxpayer questions on the phone and handle correspondence make between $24,000 and $41,000 annually, depending on seniority . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2022",
"San Francisco has passed legislation that requires some businesses to rehire people laid off during the pandemic based on seniority , but similar statewide efforts have not gotten past the governor\u2019s desk. \u2014 Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Oct. 2021",
"Many of those being lured away are pilots with the most seniority and experience. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Apr. 2022",
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"Brown spots: Basil is a sensitive plant so always protect it against frost and colder temperatures. \u2014 The Editors, Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
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"For her, the chance to save one of Utah\u2019s approximately 300 sensitive plant species is worth it. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Oct. 2020",
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"Any sensitive plants should be covered or taken inside overnight to prevent frost damage, Wood said. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 May 2020",
"Smith advises homeowners to remember pipes that could potentially freeze and rupture as well as covering sensitive plants . \u2014 Chelsea Hofmann, azcentral , 3 Feb. 2020",
"Last week, Victor Cooper, a former forest ranger in northern Australia, lit a wad of shaggy bark to demonstrate the type of fire that burns at temperatures low enough to avoid damage to sensitive plants that are crucial food for animals. \u2014 Thomas Fuller, New York Times , 16 Jan. 2020",
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"Heart failure, cardiac arrest and senility are all garbage codes. \u2014 USA Today , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The age question isn\u2019t just an issue of senility , but also representation. \u2014 Max Ufberg, Fortune , 4 Nov. 2021",
"That excludes people with certain conditions, like intellectual disabilities or senility . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 Sep. 2021",
"She\u2019s been taken in by Mrs. Keyes (Mckenna Grace) a very young Wife who rules the roost at this farmhouse now that her husband has devolved into senility . \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 28 Apr. 2021",
"Former President Donald Trump, only three years younger than Biden and also subject to similar claims of senility by opponents, used his challenger\u2019s health as an attack line on the campaign trail. \u2014 Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner , 3 Apr. 2021",
"Trump has repeatedly flipped the conversation about mental deterioration onto his opponent, who many have claimed also shows signs of senility . \u2014 Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker , 26 Oct. 2020",
"Viewers got to see Crowder, decked out in a red, white, and blue boxing outfit, joke with Cruz about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden\u2019s supposed senility , often after watching pre-roll ads. \u2014 Mark Bergen, Bloomberg.com , 12 Oct. 2020",
"Most strikingly, Biden, like Reagan, needs to dispel the notion \u2014 propounded relentlessly by Trump and his supporters \u2014 that at 77, the former vice president has descended into senility . \u2014 Doyle Mcmanus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune , 29 Sep. 2020"
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"The nursery grows more than 650 varieties including many different kinds of haworthia, kalanchoe, senecio , aeonium and sedum. \u2014 Debbie Arrington, sacbee , 15 Dec. 2017",
"Her bouquet was made of white calla lilies, silver senecio , lily of the valley, hydrangeas. \u2014 Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living , 13 Oct. 2017"
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"Ipsaro, who will be a senior at CovCath this upcoming season, is the second Colonels player to commit to Miami in the past year. \u2014 James Weber, The Enquirer , 6 July 2022",
"According to a statement from the school president, Montang was a senior in the College of Human Sciences, while Flores was a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. \u2014 Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com , 3 June 2022",
"The two competed against each other in the shot put and discus when Tosi was a freshman and Pili was a senior . \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 21 May 2022",
"The kid with the alliterative name is now a senior at Santa Fe Christian and enjoying a memorable season for the 14-6 Eagles. \u2014 Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Thornton, 18, is a senior at Glades Central Community High School in Belle Glade, Florida. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 5 May 2022",
"Maro was a senior at Andrew High School and was set to graduate in the coming weeks. \u2014 Fox News , 5 May 2022",
"Samantha Kramer is a senior at Conard High School in West Hartford. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 5 May 2022",
"Lime, who hails from Florida and is a senior at St. Olaf College, is studying vocal performance and creative writing. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The coach was disciplined by MLB senior vice president Michael Hill for making contact with Eddings and what MLB termed unsportsmanlike conduct during the exchange of lineup cards before Wednesday\u2019s game at the Chicago White Sox. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 25 June 2022",
"David Moore has been senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Micron since 2021. \u2014 Forbes , 25 June 2022",
"The way out of the gas shortage is to allow gas stations to charge more, said Uwadiae Osadiaye, senior vice president, energy and industrials at FBNQuest Merchant Bank. \u2014 Chinedu Asadu, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"Alcoholic beverages producer Beam Suntory has appointed former Avangrid chief sustainability officer and senior vice president of corporate communications Zsoka McDonald as chief communications officer. \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe And Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
"During the conference, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa AI at Amazon, demonstrated one way to leverage the voice assistant by mimicking the voice of a dead relative. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"During the second-day keynote, Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist of Alexa AI at Amazon, showed off a feature being developed for Alexa. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"All indications are that Indianapolis will see pre-pandemic numbers of tourists, said Chris Gahl, senior vice president of marketing and communications for Visit Indy. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"Before the assembly ends, Eric Rodriguez, a senior vice president at the Latinx advocacy nonprofit UnidosUS, delivers a plea for ballot access. \u2014 Nathan Heller, Vogue , 22 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In 2022, the United States is experiencing a collective senior moment . \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022",
"There were hesitations, a gaffe, and one senior moment . \u2014 Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner , 25 Mar. 2021",
"The other septuagenarian \u2014 Biden \u2014 frequently seems to have senior moments in the middle of his sentences. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 27 Jan. 2020",
"Wade had quite the senior moment early in the second period, with a block on one end, transition finish on the other. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com , 10 Apr. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Owens, a senior chief petty officer , was killed in action on Jan. 29, 2017, on a mission in Yemen. \u2014 Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Owens, a senior chief petty officer , had a tremendous 18-year career with hundreds of combat missions before paying the ultimate price when he was killed in action on Jan. 29, 2017, on a successful mission in Yemen. \u2014 Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Last year, he was medically retired from the Navy as a senior chief petty officer . \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2021",
"Shannon Kent, a 36-year-old senior chief petty officer with the Navy, was killed in January 2019 in a suicide bombing in Syria. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 6 Sep. 2020",
"Her father, during his 23-year Navy career, rose to the rank of senior chief petty officer , an almost unheard of accomplishment for an African American, retiring by the late \u201970s. \u2014 David Buice, Dallas News , 4 Aug. 2020",
"White retired from the Navy as a senior chief petty officer in 2004, his mother said. \u2014 Janelle Griffith, NBC News , 26 Nov. 2019",
"The Navy vet served his country for 26 years before retiring last October as a senior chief petty officer . \u2014 Fox News , 2 Nov. 2019",
"Cory, a senior chief petty officer , is gearing up for his eighth deployment. \u2014 Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel , 21 June 2018"
