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Example sentences for: staked

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The LAT lead about managed care reform covers ground first staked out by a NYT lead a few months ago.
Critics dump on the gratuitous violence--especially a rape and murder scene involving a naked woman staked to the ground--in this thriller starring John Travolta, James Woods, and Madeleine Stowe.
The vice president has staked out doomsday as a favored issue, and will brook no optimists.
On China, Morton Kondracke of The McLaughlin Group staked the center ground as usual.
In 1648, the French staked claim to their part of Saint-Martin and to nearby Saint-Barthélemy.