whoever
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I can tell you now that, whoever you are playing, if you get beaten - and especially beaten heavily like Coventry were by Brighton on Sunday - then it resonates with you.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
They get anchored to the diesel price, and the diesel price is set by whoever controls the water.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
That person, whoever it was, spoke for a lot of us at the time.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
The volcanic island sits inside the Bab al-Mandeb and divides the narrow waterway into two shipping channels, giving whoever holds it a powerful position to threaten vessels entering or leaving the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Probably whoever Gregory could find to take it wouldn’t have special chickens, and I bet regular chickens weren’t going to like living with this one, if it was anything like Henrietta.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
One catch: A gag order in the case meant if she told anyone, both she and whomever she informed could face charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
His attitude is essentially that the EU must take the outstretched hand of whomever the UK puts on the dancefloor to represent them.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Hypocrisy allows parents, or the DoD, or whomever, to target the book itself.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
“Gavin Newsom’s megaphone is loud enough to echo across this race, leading other prominent members of the party to endorse whomever he chooses and vaulting someone, finally, out of the crowded pack,” Kousser said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Do you think you’ll catch him, her, whomever?’
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
Clothes that show whosever wearing them in their best light, to show off their beauty but in a way that never degrades them in any way,” Griffiths said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
I thank that voice whosever it may have been, Mingo, and will say it was as true a voice as the rest were lying voices.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
And she is not wholesome, whosever word it was.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
The causes for such conduct are so common that very few men escape from their influence, and whosever does not resist them, falls and becomes a victim.
From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll
Shepherd, wherever, and whosever, drop an e; and wherefore and therefore assume one.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
