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How to use the word passed in a Sentence?

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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

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4 months ago

Now, the president can no longer put this economy in jeopardy. We have lifted the debt limit, we have done our job, we are the only body that passed anything.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
12 months ago

It practically cut and pasted policies out of the police and policy handbook, it would have taken the teeth out of the previous ordinances that were passed like the data transparency ordinance.

Ayanna Watkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our dear friend and colleague, Bob Lee passed away yesterday at the age of 43, survived by a loving family and collection of close friends and collaborators, bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the genuine article. He was made for the world that is being born right now, he was a child of dreams, and whatever he imagined, no matter how crazy, he made real.

Josh Goldbard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Wherever our first responders answer that call, they know that the possibility of something very bad happening, of an outcome that none of us want, and this flight crew on Lifesaver – they’re heroes, our hearts go out to these two members of the flight crew that have passed away.

Mayor Tony Picklesimer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our hearts go out to these two members of the flight crew that have passed away.

Mayor Tony Picklesimer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s going to make it difficult for the (LGBTQ) community to exist. They are just trying to erase the community through this bill, so it will definitely lead to an increase in attacks, there have been different types of cases, but the most dominant one is the activities of violent groups and they are widespread. So if this bill is passed, these activities are going to continue and it’s only going to also get worse.

Danny Bediako

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Like thieves in the night, the coalition just passed a disgraceful and corrupt personalized law in response to a baseless rumour about recusal. Every citizen of Israel should know – days before Passover, while cost of living is soaring, Netanyahu is once more looking out only for himself.

Yair Lapid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve been having quite excruciating anxiety from the threats of the bill. And now that it has actually passed in Parliament, the (LGBTQ) community is quite in fear, there’s a large community of LGBTQ persons in the country, so we can’t just give up. We’ll find different ways of working. We might not be as visible as we’ve been because there are attacks online as well.

Pepe Onziema

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If states passed laws that say things like, and many of them are currently contemplating these, ‘ whatever the NCAA rules are in NIL, they do n’t apply in our state, ’ that creates an issue where you put schools and conferences, many of which involve multiple states, in an impossible position, i think John Jones/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Adidas’s incumbent on us to come up with a proposal that works in the absence of that [ legislation ], but I do think it will be harder to apply John Jones/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Adidas to all 50 states if states passed laws that put schools in positions where they have to make a call.

John Jones/Icon

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1 year ago

If there was a tipping point that would influence the federal government or Congress to prioritize this issue, we’ve clearly passed whatever that tipping point may have been quite some time ago.

Paul Armentano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anytime a project like this goes viral, the climate doom also goes viral, a lot of young people are under the impression that if Willow gets passed, climate change will be irreversible. We still need to fight Willow, but your life is n’t over if it’s passed.

Alaina Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ban of TikTok on federal devices passed in December without any deliberation, and unfortunately that approach has served as a blueprint for other world governments, we hope that when it comes to addressing national security concerns about TikTok beyond government devices, Congress will explore solutions that won’t have the effect of censoring the voices of millions of Americans.

Brooke Oberwetter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ban of TikTok on federal devices passed in December without any deliberation, and unfortunately that approach has served as a blueprint for other world governments.

Brooke Oberwetter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A year has passed and all the memories, they start coming back.

Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are members of his family here, along with his fiancée, who are incredibly distraught tonight, there are other media people who are corralled together and standing in solidarity tonight as one of our own has passed.

Luana Munoz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many American boys that fought in WWII had been sterilized under eugenic laws passed by the the United States Supreme Court under the 1927 case of Buck v. Bell. Over 80,000 Americans would be forcibly sterilized under that legal precedent. Coincidentally, Buck v Bell is also the legal precedent cited in Roe v. Wade, the famous abortion rights case.

A.E. Samaan

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1 year ago

It doesn’t help that most of my friends have passed away. I plan on traveling domestically, maybe somewhere close by, if someone invites me.

Yuma Kase

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I frequently went (abroad) until about 15 or 20 years ago, it doesn’t help that most of my friends have passed away. I plan on traveling domestically, maybe somewhere close by, if someone invites me.

Aki Fukuyama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to make it known where I stand and to stand up with other women who are getting bashed online for saying they would rather be saved first over their baby, as a mother to three young children, I cannot dump the emotional trauma of losing their mother on them as children and expect them to cope. While I would be crushed to lose a baby, I need to think of my other living children as well … And I know the baby that passed would be safe without ever having to experience any pain or sadness.

Tuscany Gunter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Temu might be exposing a white space in the market wherein brands have been producing at extreme low cost, and along the value chain there’s been so much bloated cost passed on for margin, that said, American consumers might not even be ready to accept some of these price points … There’s always the question, ‘is it too cheap to be good?’.

Michael Felice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a local historian I was amazed and delighted to have the details of the letter passed to me.

Stephen Oxford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unfortunately, the letter arrived in the mail the day after Carmen Schentrup passed, so Carmen Schentrup never knew that, carmen Schentrup was going to change the world, and I ’m sure of that.

Stoneman Douglas student Ariana Ortega

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The law is still a work in progress, but if we want to use it as a tool to divide then that is a total violation of the spirit of the law, when I passed that bill, it was designed to bring people together, not divide.

Rudolph Bradley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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