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Example sentences for: way--but

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I myself have been keeping busy maintaining the aftermath of my Village Voice piece on Art Spiegelman--just got the new issue of the Comics Journal with your quotes in it, by the way--but I honestly wish this whole thing would go away.
After a year on the Net, they know it doesn't have to be that way--but they're still living in Pittsburgh.
All the following remarks could have been made by arrogant senior executives at Coca-Cola, drunk on their own power probably mixed with rum--and it's kicky summer fun to think of them that way--but none was.