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Example sentences for: receives

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A single receptor cannot analyze the wavelength of the light it receives: it simply acts as a quantum counter, but the information about the wavelength identity of the quantum is lost on absorption.
The school, which receives half of its funding from donations, distances inner-city kids from the distractions they face at home.
The second film in the Star Wars trilogy takes in $24 million its opening weekend and receives rave reviews.
Rave after rave for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's ( Boogie Nights ) star-filled film about a series of interconnected characters in the San Fernando Valley: "A wildly funny, truly wise and subversively sincere film about pain, forgiveness and the possibility of healing" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). The cast includes Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Tom Cruise (who receives over-the-top praise for his performance as a men's self-help guru).
When that occurs, the lending fund sacrifices interest from Treasury securities on its invested balances and instead receives interest from the borrowing fund on the amount of the loan.