guy
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I met a guy two months ago and I really like him.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Greg loved the ocean and was known as a passionate swimmer, sports lover, dedicated worker and an all-round generous, witty guy," his family said in a statement to the broadcaster.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Sometimes you don’t get to choose if you’re the guy, but you’re the guy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
This is a guy from football royalty who has shrewdly spent his college career trying to say nothing interesting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
I’m the complete opposite of the guy that the popular, hot girl at school would ever date.
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
Of course the story got all around the college and Watkins was unmercifully guyed.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
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
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
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
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a moment I thought he was guying us, but a glance at his eyes told me that he was in deadly earnest.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
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