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muster

[muhs-ter] / ˈmʌs tər /




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A couple of hundred bison lazed on the flat, close enough for us to study, alert to our presence, wild enough to muster a few snorts, but mostly unbothered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Twenty-one high-flying contestants are vying to win £100,000 for their charity of choice with all the charm, persuasion and manipulation they can muster.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

If the film were as goofy as the killer’s pseudonym, it might be worth the two painful hours it takes to muster through this bloodless procedural.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Behind Paramount’s pivot is a desperate scramble to bolster its legal case and muster funds to help finance a deal Warner shareholders approved in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"You're so insensitive" was the best comeback I could muster.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

"Even a cinematic maestro occasionally musters up a misfire," the Razzies said, in a press release announcing Coppola's win.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

And as is also his way, he musters up one big swing that cracks harder than all the rest.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024

Tellingly, it’s only after Adam has his first ghostly visitation with his parents that he musters the courage to seek out a sobered-up Harry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Ruzowitzky, who directed the Academy Award-winning World War II drama “The Counterfeiters,” has a taste for the dark bargains of war and its aftermath, though here he mostly musters a neo-noir mood of regret.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

The reader has already been present at several of these musters.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes

While Wall Street was broadly negative, the Dow still mustered a gain to push it to a third straight record close.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Both Musk and OpenAI have mustered high-dollar legal armies who are prepared to wage potentially years of litigation, including this federal trial.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

But against Wedgewood, the Kings have mustered little offense of their own, scoring just four times — three times on the power play and once off Moore’s leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

While previous opposition leaders mustered crowds of a few dozen if they ventured out of Budapest, Magyar attracts hundreds in villages, and thousands or tens of thousands in provincial urban Fidesz strongholds.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Eric nearly collapsed, and Jesse mustered all his well- honed phone skills with the telephone company, talking his way past the first rank to a supervisor, then claiming he was misled.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

A couple of young women stood for a long time holding a bunch of flowers, mustering the courage to venture through the crowd towards the table.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

His voice, like a conjurer’s incantation, stirs the embers of rage, mustering both a conviction and devotion that consumes both logic and restraint.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024

With a weak, unimaginative script by Zach Baylin and William Schneider doing him no favors, Skarsgård looks as lost as the pre-reborn Eric, never mustering enough mythic power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024

These were not easy conditions for mustering majority support.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2024

There he is, I said, mustering all the excitement I could find in my empty till.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom




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