Sample Sentences for
external
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    External pressure from competitors forced the company to lower its prices.
    external = coming from outside
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    80% of the country's debt is held externally.
    externally = by outsiders
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    Can she hold to her principles or will she give in to external pressure?
    external = outside
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    An external, certified audit is required each year.
    external = outside, independent
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    The phone's camera can be used with external lenses.
    external = separate, outside
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    Echo cringed externally while I inwardly flinched.†  (source)
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    Who knows if this is not some exaggeration—if it is a common-enough genus that has suffered a trauma altering its externals.†  (source)
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    I was demonstrating, externally and irrefutably, an inward condition.†  (source)
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    My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental—for the externals—no eye for the hod of the rag-picker or the fine linen of the next man.†  (source)
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    You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right.  (source)
    external = outside
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    While he was careful to avoid making a nuisance of his views, to adopt outside his realm an externally un-censoring manner, he enforced them within his family and among the employees at River Valley Farm.†  (source)
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    Almost a nun in white, despite the swarthy texture of externals; but the mind is the reality.†  (source)
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    It was not external but lay deep within himself.†  (source)
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