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Example Sentences

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"It’s a crazy country. You go to bed with one president and wake up with another," Fabiola Fernandez, a self‑employed worker, told AFP in Lima Thursday.

From Barron's

My middle-school self took over, and my adult self lost the courage to disappoint the other kids.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I'd talk to my younger self and I'd say: 'Open yourself up to the skills of those around you at a much earlier age and you will be better off'," he adds.

From BBC

At the same time, it attracts even more nerve fibers, strengthening a self sustaining loop that promotes tumor development.

From Science Daily

But slumping crude prices, government mismanagement and U.S. sanctions have left Venezuela’s industry a hollowed-out shell of its former, grandiose self.

From Los Angeles Times