guy
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“There seems to be one guy that has an issue with it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
At first, “it was like, ’Am I the guy for this job?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“You have this guy with this sketchy legal past and the cherry on top is…he’s never been a developer of a data center,” said Scurries, 34, a vocal opponent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
My suspicion is the guy you mention didn’t review the paperwork carefully and moved his money through an “indirect” or “60-day” rollover.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
There’s a bald guy with bushy eyebrows and tinted glasses standing next to us.
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
Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other and more ambitious girls guyed her right unmercifully for her plebeian tastes.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
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
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
They climbed to the roof, and serenaded the men who were trying to sleep there, varying the line or two of song accorded to each with much chaffing and guying.
From The Delafield Affair by Kelly, Florence Finch
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