guy
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“I think he’s a very honorable guy, and I feel very confident that he’ll be in good shape,” the president told reporters at the White House.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Owner Ryan Robinson said Wonder, 76, was "a really nice guy, happy to chat to everybody".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
“We needed a guy his size,” said Kyle Isaacs, an assistant coach who would take over for Harral the following year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
"He's a great guy," Trump told the room full of reporters.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Earlier today, I asked Zara what she thought, and she told me that no guy would have gone to the trouble of tracking down my number to reschedule a date only to not show up.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
"Good Lord!" he said irritably, taking me seriously for a moment; "we're a bit too old soldiers to be guyed by palaver about V.C.'s."
From Men, Women and Guns by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
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
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
“Guying us,” he said; “he was guying us—only guying us; it’s all we’re good for.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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