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Example sentences for: passes

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Even at the smallest of firms, the median hourly rate starts at roughly $130 an hour and passes $180, according to a 2002 survey by Altman Weil, a legal consulting company.
This is not the first time Cody Shearer's name has floated to the top of the murky stew of supposition, innuendo, and sleaze that passes for political discourse in America these days.
Reporters pressed him up against the little wire cage that passes for a locker.
Rather than our food being handled by the farmer, it passes through the processing and distribution system, being handled, packed, unpacked, rehandled, packed again, transported, unpacked and displayed, and on and on.
Second, if he passes that test, they want to know what's wrong with him.