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Six example sentences with external, each labelled with its topic.
The external walls take the weather, so the studio chose slate cladding that sheds rain away from the timber frame.
Architecture
An external reviewer with no ties to the company read every contract, which is why the board trusted the findings.
Business
Mount an external flash on the bracket, because light coming from the camera body flattens every face in the frame.
Photography
Keep the backup on an external drive, since a failure inside the laptop takes the internal copy with it.
Technology
An external shock, such as a jump in oil prices set abroad, can stall an economy that made no mistakes of its own.
Economics
The ointment is for external use only, so the label warns against taking it by mouth in three languages.
Medicine
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