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[man] / mæn /


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DHS—which had tracked down the man on its own, without the help of his user data from Google—ultimately dropped its request after the user found legal representation and pushed back in court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Police have shared limited details about the incident, including the identity of the other man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

"When I visited the place for a viewing there was a man standing there, glaring at me," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Yair Lapid, now a member of Eisenkot's bloc, praised Herzog at the time as "a worthy and wonderful man who is always focused on the good of the country and the Jewish people".

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

No one cares about a mule, a horse, a boy, and an injured man.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Lawyers for the two men argue that her comments showed the attorney general had already reached an opinion about the case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

All the men who escaped were undertrials - inmates on trial or awaiting one - and 18 of them were in one cell at the prison in Thekkampatti in Theni.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Rodríguez didn’t approach Waltz, nor did he appear to address the ambassador directly, even as both men continued to speak in loud voices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

In a culture that pushes the promise of an exciting whirlwind romance, Alley Horn makes the case that boring men are a better bet.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Two men, duded up in town clothes, marched down through us to the rostrum.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

“I travel through at least eight to 10 towns to reach Mogadishu. But we don’t count the towns, we count the checkpoints and who mans them,” Mr Diriye says.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024

Bernadette Christian, 59, a worker at Giant Food in Clinton, Maryland, mans six self-service stations at once, and she’s afraid to help or confront shoppers who she said have become angrier since the pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

The Lebanese army mans a checkpoint outside and typically does not enter the camp, which is under the control of the Palestinian factions.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

“Who mans the cameras?” posted parent Kris Cabby in the Facebook group Parents Supporting Teachers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023

“That’s the conclusion of the testing,” he informed her—or rather it—and Eldon Rosen, who regarded him with writhing worry; the elderly mans face contorted, shifted plastically with angry concern.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

At first he manned the post alongside another soldier, making radio reports on enemy movements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Standing alongside legendary astronauts like Neil Armstrong and Dick Gordon, a schoolboy from Lancashire was there to see the final manned lunar landing mission.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"And in 10 years' time, the first European manned capsule take off from Kourou with European astronauts and those from other nations on board," he added, referring to Europe's spaceport in French Guiana.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

These weapons allow the US to conduct precision strikes against hardened military targets, such as command bunkers or fortified military facilities, without putting manned aircraft in harm's way.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The long counter was manned by goblins sitting on high stools, serving the first customers of the day.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

High school sports programs are filled with dozens of volunteers — manning the snack bar, taking tickets, helping provide security, cleaning floors, carrying equipment and taking statistics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Federal troops were patrolling Mekelle and manning key institutions on Sunday, a local journalist told AFP, as communications were restored for the first time in more than a week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

He’ll be manning a pro-style scheme in 2026 constructed by first-time offensive coordinator Jordan Somerville, who comes to Berkeley after three years as Baker Mayfield’s assistant quarterbacks coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

LISBON—The agent manning the passport control line warned me not to be fooled by the mercifully short line that greeted me upon arrival at Portugal’s Lisbon International Airport on the last Friday in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Beckendorf was manning two catapults the size of pickup trucks, already primed and aimed at Zeus’s Fist.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan


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