How to Use on record in a Sentence

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  • Beyond that, the last 11 years have all been among the hottest on record—in no small part due to climate change.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 29 June 2026
  • The outbreak is already the third-largest Ebola outbreak on record.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, during Annecy, on June 24 France bore the brunt of its hottest day on record.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • Gulf sovereign wealth funds are on track for one of their busiest years on record, despite the economic disruptions caused by the Iran war.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
  • June 1933 remains the hottest on record in Chicago, the NWS notes.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Paris had its hottest day on record last month, forcing the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to close early for days in a row.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Last year ranked as the 12th-warmest summer on record, according to NOAA.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 29 June 2026
  • Last winter was the second-warmest on record, according to the city’s ordinance, with record low snowpack almost everywhere.
    — Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026
  • SpaceX went public in June, raising roughly $75 billion in the largest IPO on record.
    — Luke Fountain,justin Papp, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Willis, who was heterosexual, was happy to play up homoeroticism on stage and on record but joined the group in presenting a more muted media presence as their fame rocketed.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 July 2026
  • By spring 2023, Hung earned five degrees and became Fullerton College’s youngest graduate on record.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 29 June 2026
  • The development could further complicate the effort to contain what is already the third-largest Ebola outbreak on record in Central Africa.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 June 2026
  • The hottest July temperature on record is 104 on July 3, 1966.
    — Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The hottest July temperature on record is 104 on July 3, 1966.
    — Grant Gilmore, CBS News, 2 July 2026
  • The hottest July temperature on record is 104 on July 3, 1966.
    — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • However, the drought kept humidity lower, and 1988 ended up being only the 10th warmest summer on record.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • The millionaire population grew in all 56 of UBS’ tracked markets simultaneously for the first time on record.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • This July Fourth could be the hottest on record for millions of Americans as a massive heat wave traps more than half of the United States under a heat dome through the holiday weekend.
    — Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • An important caveat is that this would be the lowest murder rate on record — meaning since the FBI started publishing national murder numbers in the 1950s.
    — Martin Kaste, NPR, 30 June 2026
  • And Crenshaw was on record criticizing the effort to overturn the 2020 election, which most GOP primary voters supported.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • This year’s World Cup is already the most successful tournament for African nations on record, even after South Africa’s elimination by Canada on Sunday.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 29 June 2026
  • An index tracking semiconductor stocks has surged almost 88% since March, its best quarterly performance on record, according to FactSet data that goes back until to 1994.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • Reporting points to an October debut led by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley, which would rank among the largest technology listings on record.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The time-lapse’s release came shortly after federal forecasters said the reservoir is projected to receive only 13 percent of its typical April-to-July runoff this year, the lowest on record since the reservoir’s creation in 1963.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026
  • June through August 2024 was the nation’s fourth-hottest summer on record, with Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, and New Hampshire all experiencing their warmest summer on record.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 29 June 2026
  • CrowdStrike and Palo Alto rallied 95% and 113%, respectively, between April and June for their best quarter on record, as new artificial intelligence tools have spiked demand for more sophisticated cyber defense.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 June 2026
  • The last strong El Niño event, which took place in 2015, brought a record 16 tropical cyclones to the Northern Pacific and a 500-year drought in the Caribbean that led to water rationing in Puerto Rico, and marked 2015 as the hottest year on record.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 29 June 2026

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