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[mahr-shuhl] / ˈmɑr ʃəl /


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Once back in New York, Vanderbilt tried to marshal his “movies” into a coherent film.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

For the last 19 years, student-loan lender Sallie Mae has commissioned a study on how families marshal all the economic forces at their disposal to pay for college.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

“This arrest demonstrates that time does not erase accountability,” Wing Chau, U.S. marshal for the District of Rhode Island, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

The US president refers to Munir as his "favourite field marshal", following their acquaintance in the aftermath of conflict with India that Trump helped mediate last year.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Sometimes it took her several minutes to marshal her thoughts and continue a conversation.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi was arrested in Mexicali on Saturday and handed over to U.S. marshals in San Diego, authorities say.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

His feet were shackled and he held his hands behind his back, although US marshals had not handcuffed him.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

On Thursday, federal marshals in Miami took the Tates into custody.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Antonelli had just made his pit stop when the VSC was deployed to allow marshals to recover some debris from the track.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Several dozen marshals eventually came to the rescue and managed slowly to clear an exit path.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

New York City’s charismatic mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won his election as a DSA member in 2025 and has since marshaled political support for fellow progressives running for other offices in the city he runs.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

But rather than reacting rashly, he marshaled a tenacious defense, not losing his composure or allowing himself to be tempted into a hotheaded action that could have led to disaster.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2026

In many places she chooses to undercut the image of the lone genius, sovereign over his book-lined study and carefully marshaled pens.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Even the Treasury’s pivot toward heavier Treasury bill financing points to a world in which market structure, regulation, and innovation are quietly being marshaled to sustain an ever-larger debt load.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

In an opinion article written for the Financial Times last week, Bessent has cast the new measures as the “single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

They have created the infrastructure and marshalled the resources for an intergenerational struggle.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

After the event, as fans tried to head home, car parks became gridlocked as vehicles which had earlier been marshalled into rows tried to move off.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2025

Argentina hit back with two scores of their own but, marshalled by the superb George Ford on his 100th cap, England showed composure and defensive fortitude to keep their hosts in check.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2025

There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

It opened a new truck marshaling yard for sorting and dispatching cargo.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

Dubbed the Genesis Mission, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios called it “the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program.”

From Barron's Nov. 24, 2025

“I’m just trying to understand what would motivate the officers ... to grab such a large number of people so quickly and without marshaling reasonable suspicion to detain,” said Judge Ronald M. Gould of Seattle.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2025

In South Korea, the country’s sprawling family-run conglomerates turbocharged the "Miracle on the Han River" by marshaling capital, technology and labor to industrialize the country at breakneck speed.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2024

Pulling it off was going to mean marshaling all his resources and making some very tough decisions.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The Telegraph's Michael Hogan declared that Clenshaw "had gone out on a high by marshalling this milestone week with ambition and aplomb".

From BBC Feb. 21, 2025

Stokes was tactically inert as Saud Shakeel was marshalling Pakistan's lower-order rescue act.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2024

He had helped Ruto win by marshalling support in Mount Kenya - the biggest voting bloc in the country.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2024

Accurate CFRs are critically important in an outbreak because marshalling a public health response depends on understanding the disease’s severity.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2024

The power of marshalling his emotions and finding them ready to obey when he cried "Halt!"—a power he possessed in common with his sister Wynifred—was a thing of the past.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds




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