actors

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Since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990, the army has disarmed various nonstate actors, played intermediary between rival political factions and has cracked down on drug smuggling and Islamist groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

A parade of celebrities have been spotted at other recent games, including actors Timothée Chalamet and Ben Stiller, and filmmaker Spike Lee.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The film’s director, Brian Connors, posted on Facebook last year that Handy was one of the “finest character actors I know.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

To prevent some economic actors from having undue power over markets, we need to revitalize the tools we created in the late 1800s to fight monopolies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

If they sometimes behave like actors in a historical drama, that is often how they regarded themselves.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis