sally
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Even before Mr. Trump’s latest sally, his North Korea remarks reached far beyond the Peninsula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
However, despite learning much about scarce yellow sally, the scientists still have no idea how it got its name.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
“It’s the same shade in every music video since sally Walker. Suddenly I wear a black wig in a club scene & its an issue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
It was possible for me to sally forth without the threat of young adult bankruptcy.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2020
"Wedge," Tyrion commanded as his men streamed out of the sally port.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Edith, for example, sallies forth like Eleanor Lavish, the assertive romance writer portrayed by Judi Dench in the film version of “A Room With a View.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
Museumgoers drop these sallies with a smirk, but to my ears, these would-be witticisms just sound sad.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2015
In other pictures, loneliness looks more like idiosyncrasy: a voluptuously curved gourd on a floral tablecloth, photographed by Heather Rasmussen, could be an expression of the individual mind’s unpredictable sallies against the world’s neatly printed expectations.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2015
Two of the Atlas’s last five sallies had ended in failure.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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I sallied forth, seeking a companion to go with me to see Metallica at a 6th Street club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Yet despite a government determined to constrain their ambition and advancement, they sallied forward to become a lawyer and educator, respectively.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2022
One of these counter-offensives came in the form of an appearance from billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks' former chairman, who sallied over to Buffalo to vaguely dissuade pro-union workers from unionizing.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
Had he known, says Smith, “There is no way in the world I would have sallied forth into the rubber plantation with 100 men to face an enemy regiment with 2,000 or more soldiers.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019
When they sallied forth together the neighborhood emptied suddenly of not only cats but of dogs as well.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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“I tended toward … a kind of diffuse sallying through the world, staying open to the coincidence, digression, and movement,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Finally, some first-timers are valiantly sallying forth — the kind of debuts that’ll be more and more rare as times only get tougher for the restaurant industry under COVID-19.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
But sallying forth without any of them is a recipe for misery.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2016
For both sides the primary task of this weekend then is not avoiding sallying forth on to the fiscal slope, but making sure their bindings are tight as they do so.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012
They wished to be at the hangars, to greet those who returned, and give the pilots who 83 were sallying forth a last word of encouragement.
From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach
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