chap
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As an honest broker from the moderate left, notwithstanding his Trump fixation, Mr. Traub may be the chap to get the message across.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Mr Hamson, who now lives in Coven, in Staffordshire, said learning more about his background had made him become a "much nicer chap".
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024
Our unlikely hero is the Dude from “The Big Lebowski” as a manic pixie dream boy, an effervescently charming and inexplicably quirky chap.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
“Not your relatives. It’s the mother, father and brother of that chap who died. They’ve traveled all the way from New York to see a dying soldier, and you’re the handiest one we’ve got.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing chap
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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