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BBC presenter Ralph McLean said Kelly was "a natural broadcaster, great family man and always a gentleman".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Texts from a man her friend was seeing had been unwieldy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
He said it made him a more empathetic manager and a more confident man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a busy man.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
The man dressed in black sits high on his horse.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Some 148 of the alleged victims were men.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Three men were arrested on Saturday in Gironde -- where a wildfire has already scorched 32,000 hectares -- on suspicion of endangering lives, prosecutors said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The families of all four men released their tributes together through police.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Among the victims were 280 men, 26 women and four girls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The men went happily on their way, relieved that nothing had happened when they had expected the worst.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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Some of the employees still work there, including Jorge Cuervo, the production supervisor, and Fabian Diaz, who mans the forklift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
“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
In the ad, Affleck mans the drive-through booth at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Medford, Massachusetts, with a Boston accent and shocks customers.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
In the ad, Affleck mans the drive-through booth at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Medford, Massachusetts with a Boston accent and shocks customers.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
The boy took the old mans head in his arms.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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Across the nation, they’ve set up safe spaces in schools, specialized classrooms that feel more like living rooms and that are manned by professional counselors trained in domestic violence intervention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The military plans to buy about 1,000 new “collaborative combat aircraft,” aiming for a cost of one-third of a manned fighter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The B-52 Stratofortress is described by the military as a “long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions,” known as the “backbone of the manned strategic bomber force for the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The unit looks after "the operational deployment of unmanned systems teamed with manned operators to bolster maritime security across the Middle East region".
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
At Rockfish Gap there is a tollbooth manned by rangers where motorists have to pay an entrance fee and thru-hikers have to acquire a backcountry hiking permit.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Gabelli said that over time, he developed an interest in investing and that he had worked ”every job” at the firm — including “trading, sales, marketing and manning the phones.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Austin Police Department Corporal Patrick Oborski was manning a busy downtown intersection in Texas when he saw one of Waymo’s robotaxis zoom ahead of traffic—on the wrong side of the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
A single operator manning a computer-guided saw cuts 40-foot timbers into every length and angle required.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
BBC Music correspondent Mark Savage said security guards manning the main stage were helping to give out water to the crowds in the heat.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
He had been manning an observation post 5.7 miles from the mountain, but he had a college placement interview on May 18 in California, and so had left the site the day before the eruption.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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