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How to use the word Active in a Sentence?

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[T]he Russians are more active than we’ve seen them in years, and their patrols into the Atlantic, and throughout the Atlantic, are at a high level, most of the time at a higher level than we’ve seen in years, and this is, as you pointed out, despite all of the efforts that they’re undertaking inside Ukraine.

– Christopher Cavoli

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11 months ago

Early adoption of hearing aids could help people hold onto their jobs, communicate better at home with family and friends, and … remain (in) active their communities.

– Lise Hamlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is this fear of movement that transplant recipients feel, and they can become sedentary, whereas all of the evidence shows now that the fitter and the more active they can be around that transplanted organ, the more likely they are to actually hold onto that organ for many, many years to come.

– Chris Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Attacks still happen, but they really have been reduced to small groups of effectively organized crime gangs. They don’t have anything like the weapons or reach that the IRA did. Nor do they have a coherent ideology. They might still be active, but the idea they could carry out anything on the scale of the worst days is just unimaginable now.

– Norman Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have come to the realization in recent weeks that a globally active, systemically important bank cannot simply be wound up according to the ‘too big to fail’ plan, legally, this would be possible. In practice, however, the economic damage would be considerable.

– Karin Keller-Sutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It reminds me of some of the more historically active years that we’ve seen in the past.

– Bill Bunting

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There have been well over a dozen higher end severe events, that’s like enhanced risks, Level 3 of 5 or higher, just since November, it reminds me of some of the more historically active years that we’ve seen in the past.

– Bill Bunting

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anecdotally, in conferences that I’ve attended, that is the word on the street: that most of these patients are very healthy. They’re not obese; they’re very active, we know that excess weight increases your risk, and we know that we’ve had a big increase in body weight in this country.

– Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We typically refer to these successive types of atmospheric rivers as ‘AR families,’ while AR families are not all that uncommon, we don’t see them every year and the stretch of nine we had around the turn of the New Year was a more active family than we typically see.

– Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As someone who loves to stay active, it’s so essential to show my muscles some love before and after exercise.

– Demi Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.

– Venus Herrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is nice to see them more active, indicating their improved vision, the king penguins are adapting well to the new lenses as well.

– Ellen Rasidi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

DoD needs to do this, active-duty service members don’t have a way to report mental health issues outside the chain of command because DoD just hasn’t gotten out of their own bureaucratic way to implement this act. It just requires the Secretary of Defense and his department to do their job.

– Seth Moulton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that has given our allies confidence, like Japan, to increase the defense budget, to be more active on the diplomatic arena and stage.

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

White Christian were also active in women’s equality, including voting rights, which was a radical idea in the 19th century.

– Randall Balmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sales declined as mortgage rates soared, new listings sputtered out and active inventory pooled up as homes stayed on the market longer.

– Nicole Bachaud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This truly has been a nightmare that we are living tonight, we are relieved to no longer have an active threat on campus, while we realize that there is so much healing that will need to take place after this.

– Interim Deputy Chief Chris Rozman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At best, they’re telling you something about a very small aspect of aging, for example, grip strength is also a biological age predictor, how active you are is a predictor, and we all know people who fall apart physically but are cognitively all there, so you also need to test cognitive aging.

– Pankaj Kapahi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have fire drills in schools generally, every month. We have active shooter drills. But we do not in most schools have sudden cardiac arrest drills.

– Victoria Vetter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Exercise will potentially prevent or delay arthritis, if you’re not active and exercising, you should be.

– Elexander Atkinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re also working, we have worked, with a diaspora population, knowing that there is a very active and engaged Nicaraguan diaspora population here in the United States who we imagine and are confident will be here to greet these individuals and to welcome them to the United States.

– Ned Price

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s still an active conflict zone, the Syrian crisis is far from over.

– Charles Lister

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The suspects and the victims have a long history of gun violence, heavily active in guns, gang violence, gun violence, and narcotics dealings.

– Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way I look at it, any one of our active astronauts is eligible for an Artemis mission, we just want to assemble the right team for this mission.

– Reid Wiseman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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