guy
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Eckerlin played at left-back but admits he "wasn't a technical guy" before joking he was more of a fighter on the pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Good looking guy, he is,” the president declared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“I’m a guy that likes to work and earn everything I get.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Nothing so humiliating as another guy revealing what I felt.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Certainly, political and religious leaders, the rich and powerful are mercilessly guyed, but this is surely the mot juste, because the disjunction between these effigies and the people they represent is understood by all.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2015
It's as if they think they have to imitate someone other than themselves, to summon up a pretend, all-purpose actress who can be guyed.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were so deeply moved by this whole affair that they bitterly guyed the late appearance of the hook and ladder company, whose heavy apparatus had almost stalled them on the Bridge Street hill.
From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
One thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since he is guying his own image.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first they paid no attention to him, saying merely, "Quit your guying, kid."
From A Boy Knight by Martin Jerome Scott
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