veteran
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The club was sitting 16th in La Liga, just two points from the relegation places, and here it was hiring an Ivy Leaguer from Bergen County—a veteran of the Fair Lawn Cutters—to turn things around.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
On his mother's side, he was descended from Lt Gen Sir Edward Barnes, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo; on his father's, from the 19th-Century Bengali reformer Brahmananda Keshub Chandra Sen.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Whether you are a veteran investor, a novice or a trader, it is useful to be reminded of fundamental principles that can help you to stay disciplined as you build wealth.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
“We are not in a simulation,” a veteran White House reporter told me.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
Thomas Jones was a Confederate Secret Service veteran who had spent his entire life trailblazing through the fields, thickets, and forests of rural Maryland and navigating its streams, marshes, and rivers.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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