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harry

[har-ee] / ˈhær i /


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Kounde cleared off the line and Garcia tipped Fernandez's near-post drive away as Espanyol continued to harry Hansi Flick's side.

From Barron's Jan. 3, 2026

Abolitionists made good use of the provision to harry slave traders.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

Blackthorne is part of a small fleet commissioned by England to find the mysterious and very wealthy island of Japan, and harry any Catholic forces along the way.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2024

Leclerc judged the restart beautifully, while Verstappen's attempt to harry Leclerc before he bolted from the last corner backfired and he came under pressure from Sainz.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2022

That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In the book, she’s a paper-thin virtual idol, whom Wade stalks and harries for attention.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2018

He hustles and harries various Chelsea defenders in quick succession as they pass the ball out from the back, no doubt knackering himself out in the process.

From The Guardian Dec. 12, 2017

Nelson harries the French fleet in the Mediterranean.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2014

He harries attacking midfielders, breaks up passes, and clogs space.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2014

During the summer and autumn of 1636, a Mindanao chief named Tagal harries the coasts of Cuyo and Calamianes.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Initially, Joe and Angela don’t look so different from the pictures of couples we’ve seen before: harried and married, dead when they wed.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Next time, I’ll trade calm for harried and head straight for Logan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

A key measure of inflation used by the Federal Reserve to set interest rates posted the biggest increase in March in almost three years, marking another major hurdle for a resilient but harried U.S. economy.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

Igor Jesus hit his own bar, Richarlison pressed and harried and Mathys Tel produced one of his better displays.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2026

A wireless set mumbles the names of ministers in a harried, staccato voice—de Gaulle in London, Petain replacing Reynaud.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

PGE would eventually shutter Trojan after decades of regulatory violations, forced shutdowns, construction flaws, costly repairs and constant harrying from antinuclear activist Lloyd Marbet through the state council.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2025

The game may only be nine minutes old but I am already tired watching Jason Knight hustling and harrying the Swiss defence at every opportunity, he has been everywhere so far.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2024

According to a reporter’s intrepid Freedom of Information Act inquiries, enthusiastic pickleball ambassadors are employing the “USA Pickleball tool kit” and harrying local park departments to elbow out their tennis-and-basketball-playing neighbors.

From Slate Dec. 7, 2023

Mainz had defended well up to then, frustrating the visitors with persistent harrying and it looked like Lee Jae-sung’s first-half header was going to be enough to win the game.

From Washington Times Aug. 27, 2023

"So long as the harrying is done, what does it matter? No priest could do what I mean to, nor what I ask of you. I have a task that only Dagmer Cleftjaw can accomplish."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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