How to Use sententious in a Sentence
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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.
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Wired,
2019-10-22
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What’s more, Charles’s sententious interpretation of noblesse oblige leaves him open to the charge of overstepping the constitutional boundaries of his position.
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Zoë Heller,
The New Yorker,
2017-03-31
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