Sample Sentences for
9/11
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    After 9/11 it was a blur, but I remember Adam saying that he was going to be fighting for us, for our way of life.  (source)
    9/11 = September 11, 2001; when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
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    We did not realize then that 9/11 would change our world too, and would bring war into our valley.  (source)
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    Even after 9/11, it took a week to figure out what was happening.  (source)
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    Older people of color in the South would occasionally come up to me after speeches to complain about how antagonized they feel when they hear news commentators talking about how we were dealing with domestic terrorism for the first time in the United States after the 9/11 attacks.  (source)
    9/11 = September 11, 2001; when suicide bombers hijacked US airliners and used them as missiles to kill about 3,000 people
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    Al-Qahtani eventually told them that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner of the September 11 attacks, sent him to the United States.†  (source)
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    The 9/11 attacks had occurred only a year earlier, during my junior year of high school; like any self-respecting hillbilly, I considered heading to the Middle East to kill terrorists.  (source)
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    In addition to fighting these insurgents and jihadists and providing security for the newly formed Afghan government, the U.S. military's priority mission remained the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, the archi tect of the September 11 attacks on American soil.†  (source)
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    But that was France, only shortly after 9/11; and, under the new rubric of federal anti-terrorism laws, the museum thefts carried an additional, more serious charge of "looting of cultural artifacts."  (source)
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    In the States, Timur goes by "Tim." He changed his name after 9/11 and claims that he has nearly doubled his business since.  (source)
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    Like after 9/11, only times ten.  (source)
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    We Remember 9/11.  (source)
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    You couldn't get right up to the site, so we stood near a firehouse, where a man started talking to us about 9/11.  (source)
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    Other than 9/11, there were no real "events" in my life to recall.  (source)
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