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Example sentences for: despite

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Despite raves for Robert Downey Jr.'s performance in director James Toback's comedy, critics deem Two Girls bathetic.
And despite having written 2,500 newspaper columns, he (usually) avoids the dull mediocrity that mires so many regular op-ed writers (Anthony Lewis, Ellen Goodman ...)
Despite the fact that he was dismissed and abandoned by Clinton, and despite the fact that he turned his notes over to the Thompson committee, the younger Ickes maintains "unshakable" faith in Clinton.
Cher's gem stood unrivaled until I recently heard a Monday Night Football savant announce to the nation that despite confusion among the officials on the field, a touchdown had indeed been scored, because “the plane of the ball broke the goal line.”
A significant difference between D2 and AKXD28 mice is the lack of an overt IPD phenotype in AKXD28, despite inheritance of the ipd allele from D2.