guy
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Eckerlin played at left-back but admits he "wasn't a technical guy" before joking he was more of a fighter on the pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He was an early champion of the Apple II and was known in the industry as the guy on Wall Street who took the personal computer seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“John is a guy that I know can lead that process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
I’d somehow ensured that I’d beat the Lincoln simulation, but I’d failed to catch the guy responsible for all of this.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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 tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even when you guyed me I didn't much mind—because there was fun in it.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
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
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
She keeps the younger children from guying you, because your nose is red; in short, she does a thousand nice things of which the sister-mother has no knack whatever.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
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