every man

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Not every man has the rhetorical gifts of Abraham Lincoln, but every one of us can avoid going straight to our political soapboxes and thereby diminishing the human tragedy before us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

This time, with more than a half dozen plausible candidates and no obvious path to victory for any one, it’s every man and woman for themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

A spokesperson for the DOJ claimed the image was “part of a batch of files that had been flagged for nudity,” but every man in the photograph is fully clothed.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026

"We are used to having Russia just across the border," said Lopponen, who like almost every man and some women, is a military reservist until the age of 65.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

My father, like nearly every man on our island, was a waterman.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson