marshal
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The closest woman for the job was Gail Curley, the Supreme Court’s marshal.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Kathy Hilton will no longer be the grand marshal of West Hollywood’s pride parade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
The field marshal exercises tight security control in the area he rules and, now Belgacem, one of his six sons, heads a reconstruction programme and appears to be seeking to restore the clan's legitimacy.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
What makes it work is debunkbots’ ability to marshal lots of evidence and explain it well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
The bride’s father was an air vice marshal, it was rumored that the Head of State might attend, and Aunty Uju joked about asking him to make her medical officer at Aso Rock.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Antonelli had just made his pit stop when the VSC was deployed to allow marshals to recover some debris from the track.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Before letting us start, the track marshals made us take down the GoPro camera attached to the windshield, which would otherwise have been pointed at my horrified face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
And if play should begin to slow, course managers can call out the cavalry—suggesting where to place marshals around the course to shepherd golfers along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Local fire marshals, fire chiefs and firefighting unions have, by and large, opposed easing staircase requirements in the building code wherever they’ve been proposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
Two days after publication, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Claflin were distributing three thousand copies of the paper around town when US marshals stopped them.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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New York City’s charismatic mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won his election as a DSA member in 2025 and has since marshaled political support for fellow progressives running for other offices in the city he runs.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
But rather than reacting rashly, he marshaled a tenacious defense, not losing his composure or allowing himself to be tempted into a hotheaded action that could have led to disaster.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
In a letter to Congress, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department marshaled a team of more than 200 lawyers to review materials for potential release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Even the Treasury’s pivot toward heavier Treasury bill financing points to a world in which market structure, regulation, and innovation are quietly being marshaled to sustain an ever-larger debt load.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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They have created the infrastructure and marshalled the resources for an intergenerational struggle.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Outside, bonfires are being lit, cherry pickers are providing moody lighting, and crowds of extras are being marshalled around to create party vibes.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Ford marshalled his side brilliantly around the field all game, kicking smartly - both to compete and in finding space behind the visitors' backfield.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
After the event, as fans tried to head home, car parks became gridlocked as vehicles which had earlier been marshalled into rows tried to move off.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Most of these ships have the ability to launch helicopters that support boarding operations, and some are capable of marshaling commercial vessels to specific areas to hold them in place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Glowicki is a terrific filmmaker, marshaling her tiny troupe to execute this unique project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The initiative, described as the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since Apollo, will require significant computing power.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
In South Korea, the country’s sprawling family-run conglomerates turbocharged the "Miracle on the Han River" by marshaling capital, technology and labor to industrialize the country at breakneck speed.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
He thought of Grandfather on a huge white horse, marshaling the people.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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At the heart of it all was the magnificent Gabriel, repelling all Brighton's borders and marshalling resources with his outstanding central defensive partner William Saliba missing through injury.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Smith is probably a better batter and Stokes might be more suited to marshalling the lower order.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
Moving the cruise berth will also free up space to expand the harbour's existing marshalling area for wind turbines.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025
Accurate CFRs are critically important in an outbreak because marshalling a public health response depends on understanding the disease’s severity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
And while the procession of fiddlers and villagers were marshalling in order, it was no unusual thing to hear an aged dame calling from her cottage door: "Noo, honies, run an' git ye're fancies!"
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney
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