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guy

[gahy] / gaɪ /


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Dvontre is also a door guy at the Store.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Two days before US-Canada trade talks dramatically derailed, Vice-President JD Vance was telling an audience at a private fundraiser that Prime Minister Mark Carney was a "very sweet guy".

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

“The guy had just spent two weeks in Napa, visited eight wineries, joined three wine clubs, sent cases of wine home, the whole thing,” he recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Now, Senator Sullivan is getting help from a former Republican mayor of Anchorage, who is urging voters to stay focused and back the right guy.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

“Wes is a really nice guy, and he has a family that depends on him,” I say out loud.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Certainly, political and religious leaders, the rich and powerful are mercilessly guyed, but this is surely the mot juste, because the disjunction between these effigies and the people they represent is understood by all.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2015

It's as if they think they have to imitate someone other than themselves, to summon up a pretend, all-purpose actress who can be guyed.

From The Guardian Jun. 15, 2013

The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first day or two the club guyed him for turning poler, and they thought his serious and grave demeanor was very funny when he declined to join with them in their pursuits.

From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams

Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since he is guying his own image.

From Time Magazine Archive

Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw men.

From Time Magazine Archive

One thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

A short perpendicular gaff spar, under the bowsprit-end, for guying down the jib-boom, of which indeed it is the chief support, by means of the martingales.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher




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