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How to use the word Period in a Sentence?

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There was a period when God seemed absent, and an unexplained yearning filled my being. When His presence returned, joy and peace enveloped me. Today, I realize that true fulfillment for humanity is found in communion with God.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

A tangible link to the past is going to be lost when the last voices from that time period are gone. So many of the voices that were here, even 10 years ago, to share their memories — law enforcement officials, reporters, eyewitnesses — so many of those folks have passed away.

Stephen Fagin

added by stardeez
4 months ago

In a period of attention seekers, stay humble. No need to level up, keep a level head. Stay focus and work on making yourself better. Go at your pace and ignore the distractions, your only competition is you.

Tristain Shury

added by choozenboy
7 months ago

When you look at public opinion data from pre-Covid, during Covid and whatever this period is now; there is something different in the water in Alberta from a cultural-political perspective.

Duane Bratt

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

I think the extremes in both parties are wrong on this. Most Americans believe that there is a reasonable time period, and it generally falls in the first trimester, when you look at this issue, most people want reasonableness and they want a rational discussion on it.

Mike Lawler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You definitely have your caffeine withdrawal period, but in seriousness, you know, this is a month that really pushes you to forge community. It’s very easy when you’re in the 24/7 grind to lose a sense of the people that surround us and strengthen us. This is an opportunity to reach out to them. It’s really a month that’s oriented towards service.

Ali Zaidi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For a lot of people, this can be a very disruptive period of time, there is a significant time and paperwork burden being placed on families – a lot of them very low income, a lot of them medically vulnerable.

Sabrina Corlette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It felt like there was a period of time when I just wasn’t really identified with anything, like I didn’t know who I was, i just had such a struggle [with] being normal. It was way bigger than sport. It was just like: oh my gosh, I just … want to be normal again.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Typically, with these infections, because they take a very long time to grow and they’re a little bit more fastidious, you need to treat them for a longer period of time, sometimes several months, so she’s doing better. I wouldn’t say 100%, but she’s doing a lot better than she was initially.

Jordan Mah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For a period of time last year, there were some incorrect discussions and comments in the society, which made some private entrepreneurs feel worried.

Li Qiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a $25,000 direct benefit to build wealth through home equity, black Residents that lived in Evanston during the period of harm, which was 1919 - 1969, or their direct descendants are eligible.

Rue Simmons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your blood, your body, processes many of the chemicals out of it within that time period, that they don’t become detectable at that point.

David Comstock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is due to the suboptimal condition of the culture system. Especially, if the culture period is long (in this case 5-6 weeks), then the cell potential is compromised.

Katsuhiko Hayashi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They know what happened to me and that I was tortured… but never discussed the details. They just know it from Google. (If) one’s hypervigilance was a key element of them surviving a particularly traumatic period of their life.

Alexandra Chen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The commonwealth shouldn’t be in the business of putting people to death. Period.

Josh Shapiro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What happened in 2020 and 2021 compared with 2019 is Covid, this is sort of my reflection on this time period, Covid-19 and pregnancy. Women were at increased risk for morbidity and mortality from Covid. And that actually has been well-proven in some studies, showing increased risks of death, but also being ventilated in the intensive care unit, preeclampsia and blood clots, all of those things increasing a risk of morbidity and mortality.

Elizabeth Cherot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the crisis intensifies, the Fed would likely lean toward financial stability getting priority for a brief period of time, but by the time we get to the next meeting [in May], I think we’d likely see a resumption of financial tightening by the Fed in terms of further increases.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Leader McConnell’s concussion recovery is proceeding well and the Leader was discharged from the hospital today. At the advice of his physician, the next step will be a period of physical therapy at an inpatient rehabilitation facility before he returns home.

David Popp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we have in Vice President Harris is a competent, capable, intelligent, authentic leader of color, people have to get comfortable seeing women, and women of color, in places of leadership, period.

Laphonza Butler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The large increase to 1.7 million [in January] brings them closer to the pre-pandemic average of 1.9 million and suggests that the period of unprecedented job security for American workers is coming to a close.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some have worked well, but typically only for a short period of time as consumers continue to seek something new and different, many seltzer buyers are just spending less on seltzers, with a third of volume loss due to shifting to other categories, like spirits-based cocktails.

Kaleigh Theriault

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not trying to blame anybody for their cancer diagnosis, but when you see something occurring in a short period of time, it’s more likely something external to the patient that’s driving that, and it’s hard not to at least think – when you have something like colorectal cancer – that something diet-related is not impossible.

William Dahut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’re looking at the middle of the pendulum swing in the history of nominations, a period of apparent balance when the Oscars look eclectic and seem focused on the substance and style of the films themselves.

Loren PQ Baybrook

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a very strong scientific basis showing that waiting period, even as short as seven days, significantly reduce suicide rates.

Craig Bryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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