guy
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I was working hard to get to 170lb and fight this guy.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
According to an obviously orchestrated set of phone calls to friends, though, the guy has never been better.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
I have a feeling he was quite a guy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
I was getting annoyed — this was a pink flag because in my dating world, the guy is supposed to come to the woman’s neighborhood in the early days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
“They’re having their last show, and I promised him I’d be here. He’s the guy I’ve been calling you about all summer long.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other and more ambitious girls guyed her right unmercifully for her plebeian tastes.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
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
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
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
At first they paid no attention to him, saying merely, "Quit your guying, kid."
From A Boy Knight by Scott, Martin Jerome
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