How to Use even as in a Sentence

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  • That part of the plan has not changed even as EV sales growth has dampened in the US market.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • But the problem is growing even as leaders try to solve it.
    USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • These Bruins aren’t even as talented as the Bruins who played in the Sweet 16 in each of the last two years.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The crisis spiraled, even as France killed more and more fighters.
    Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • The agency has said that staffing levels are at a 25-year low even as the number of U.S. retirees grows.
    Erin Cox, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • And even as an adult, MacLaine is still very much a big sister to her little brother.
    Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The idea enjoyed a resurgence with a series of books and films in the late 1990s even as it was dismissed as junk science.
    Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • That's even as prices have retreated to pre-war levels.
    Bob Henderson, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But even as the country relaxes just a bit, it's been quite a week in politics.
    ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The agency has dragged its feet on the issue, even as seats have moved closer together.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • The thoroughfare is much in need of TLC, even as it is beloved, in its own way, by longtime residents.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • That message has stuck even as the Fed penciled in three rate cuts next year — causing the markets to start popping the champagne.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As June draws to a close, yields on junk bonds are on pace to hold roughly steady in the second quarter even as Treasury debt has sold off.
    Matt Grossman, WSJ, 20 June 2023
  • There are so many people that just do not understand satire, even as a concept.
    Juan Barquin, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
  • But even as some call for a new election – which would be Israel’s sixth in just four years – many are not prepared to ditch Netanyahu.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Asher treats him as an old friend, even as Dougie seems mostly dismissive of him.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • With nine council members, a couple or even as many as four no votes would not tank Woodfin’s budget.
    Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 27 June 2023
  • In 2023, demand started to slide even as more planes and pilots started to come online.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Yelich said that even as the player with the highest active batting average off the 35-year-old in all of baseball.
    Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
  • That narrative has just stuck around, even as the data have just gone completely the other way.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • All such work, though, will need to be conducted even as a major source of mental health care funding is in flux due to the passage of Prop. 1.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At some places the child’s little prints disappear even as the woman’s broaden in the mud under the burden of the youngster’s extra weight.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The noise, though, washing down from the Curva Sud even as the thing Milan had dreaded most of all slowly came into being, will echo for some time.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Swift's early country music resonated with her and she's been a fan since, even as the singer moved to other genres.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2023
  • The Orioles seem to be willing to give him that opportunity, even as Ortiz is pounding on the door at Triple-A.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The couple tries to abide by their marital vows, even as there appears to be no real road to the normality Nick craves.
    Christina Newland, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • The weekend brings one additional strong surge of Arctic air even as skies turn sunnier.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Their links are revealed over time, even as the dreamers remain in the dark as to their own interconnectedness.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • But despite the recent Israeli strikes on its proxies, Iran has appeared wary of moving into direct conflict with its longtime enemy, even as their decades-long shadow war has been pushed further into the open.
    Helen Regan, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Progress toward health coverage parity, in which mental health issues are covered in the same way as physical health issues, has been glacial, even as America's mental health crisis continues to soar.
    Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024

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