captain
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Annour, a left back, made the cut as did Abdallah, a physical midfielder with a perpetual smile who would become the team captain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
However, he will remain as the club's captain and will not be disciplined for his comments.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Notably, he starred alongside Sigourney Weaver in the sci-fi classic “Alien” as spacecraft captain Arthur Dallas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Bruno Fernandes will remain as Manchester United captain and will not be disciplined for his post-match criticism of Michael Carrick after the 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Still, I wish the captain good luck with his angry general!”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
In the process, Tyree notes, the filmmakers reveal that unlike in the past, when captains of industry launched art museums and libraries, this generation isn't as interested in philanthropy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Without it CrossWave captains cannot—or, at least, should not—approach the short water near the shoreline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
At sea, these programs often rely on self-reported information from ship captains rather than having auditors inspect vessels offshore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Oil-tanker captains are being offered up to $100,000 per month to navigate the Strait of Hormuz.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the early seventeenth century Bermuda was well known among ships’ captains for being hard to locate.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The Lions' T20s in the Caribbean are followed by five one-day matches, with the squad for that series captained by Test batter Dan Lawrence.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Doing that would betray their ignorance of the show’s legacy, especially the five seasons that Allen captained.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Boatsetter made the booking easy, and because the sailboat was captained by its owner, all I really had to worry about was keeping dinner from burning.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
And I’ve never captained one, if truth be told.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
His father, Derek, and uncle, Barry, both played for Rangers with the latter captaining and at one stage managing at Ibrox.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Take a seat on a curvaceous wooden bench and imagine you’re captaining a spaceship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Fresh from captaining Spain to World Cup victory, Rodri will head for back surgery on Monday with just a year left on his contract, amid increasing speculation about his future.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Before his return to captaining England in Nottingham, he referred only to leading the team "this week".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The former faction had been identified with sending and captaining the fleets.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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