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troy

[troi] / trɔɪ /
NOUN
ounce
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NOUN
pound
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Then with one out in the sixth, Sheehan tried to work back from a first-pitch ball with a fastball up to Diamondbacks rookie Tommy Troy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“When it happens” — the phrase became a meme almost overnight, as Troy Farah recently observed, in no small part because, even in our attention-addled age, people understand what it means.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

Mr. Troy is a senior fellow in Zionist thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem and author of “The Essential Guide to the U.S-Israel Partnership, the 250th Anniversary Edition,” forthcoming in June.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Actress Lupita Nyong'o has told people who have criticised her casting as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey to remember that "this is a mythological story".

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Agamemnon, who led the Greeks against Troy, belonged to it.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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