gent
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Hill was another gent from an age when drivers risked everything in cars for which safety features were a virtually non-existent consideration.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Recently, I hiked Griffith Park with a 100-year-old gent, Pete Teti, who is all about embracing change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
A well-educated cosmopolitan gent whose inherited family riches were expanded under his watch, a man who understood the economy and helped people manage their money, which was how he made money of his own.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023
Only in the last verse does the listener learn that it wasn’t a woman who left the now crazed gent, but a dog.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
“Leave that lady and home you go. Opposite the gent with a do-si-do. Jump right up and never come down. Now swing that calico round and round.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday highlighted a separate partnership with the UFC to teach federal gents "amazing tactics so they can safeguard American lives."
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
“One of the gents has said on many occasions if he wasn’t in the group he wouldn’t be here now – the group has saved his life.”
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024
A group of seven ever-so-proper ladies and gents, with ramrod-straight posture and pinkies extended, are seated in a row of wooden chairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
It’s definitely all about the gents for the foreseeable future.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2022
The guy driving the cargo platform told us to step aboard, step aboard, ladies and gents.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
