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musketeer

[muhs-ki-teer] / ˌmʌs kɪˈtɪər /


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Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

A lone musketeer of disruption, he spouts mantras about the glory of “breaking stuff,” and cloaks his bottomless greed and shallow narcissism in showy messianic robes.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

The story finally kicks into gear when the musketeer Athos, played by Ben Cunis, reads a letter about his son’s misfortune even as we watch it playing out in a gorgeous slow-motion battle.

From Washington Post ● May 16, 2016

The instigator is that musketeer of the digital age, the whistleblower.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2016

Each musketeer retired behind a tree, and fired from behind it, without showing more than his head and shoulders, and then but for a moment.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The saying "three is a crowd" seems not only to apply to "The Three Investigators" and the three musketeers.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

Ultimately, he finds himself in conflict with three musketeers who each challenge him to a duel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

These three space musketeers bring a collective net worth of almost $400 billion to their out-of-this-world side hustles.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2021

“It has four musketeers in it, but nobody seems to mind.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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