chap
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As an honest broker from the moderate left, notwithstanding his Trump fixation, Mr. Traub may be the chap to get the message across.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Our unlikely hero is the Dude from “The Big Lebowski” as a manic pixie dream boy, an effervescently charming and inexplicably quirky chap.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
Wresham were behind by this point on Saturday at Morecambe but rallied thanks to a chap by the name of Paul Mullin.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024
That ain’t the way to get out of being common, old chap.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing chap
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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