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There are many sources of air pollution; exhaust fumes, for example.

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Golden Tempo, for example, ran just four times before entering the Kentucky Derby and just once – as a Belmont winner – since. Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026 Earth-observation companies, for example, may collect huge amounts of imagery to track weather, crops, disasters, land use or emissions. Martin Halliwell, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026 By agreeing to put off the merger for now, Paramount doesn’t have to face a potential courtroom loss over attorneys generals’ longer-term restraining order, for example. Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026 Beijing’s security provisions, for example, mean that plenty of Latin American cities and provinces now effectively rely on China for their law enforcement and emergency response infrastructure, and, in Lima’s case, electricity infrastructure. Natalia Cote-Muñoz, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for for example

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“For example.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for%20example. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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