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Example sentences for: discovered

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Even though foreign invaders stormed Portugal around 2000 b.c. , Madeira was discovered only a few decades before Columbus made his way to America.
Yet the message of simple reassurance turned out to be more complicated, as Spock himself quickly discovered.
The Washington Post goes with the revelation that last fall, just weeks after gaining China's pledge to halt assistance to Iran's nuclear programs (elicited in return for allowing American firms to sell nuclear reactors to China), the Clinton administration discovered and protested China's secret negotiations with Iran regarding shipping it material used to make weapons-grade uranium.
As someone has said, Columbus only thought that he had discovered Jamaica.
In a cave in the Ardeche near Valence, Alban Defleur of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseilles and Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley discovered 100,000-year-old human bones mixed up with those of animals, all of them looking like the leftovers from dinner.