guy
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Now the same guy comes in with pictures of our menu and the menu board and insists we can’t use the name Jewish cheesesteak.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The executives from Cheerios were like, ‘All right, we can’t use this guy.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
We’re hooting and hollering because Texas is now represented in the Senate by a guy who sounds like Mr. Burns when he gets too many medical treatments and keeps offering everyone his love.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
"I'm a guy on his own, writing songs with nothing to prove. That's a pretty good place to be."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
I wondered again why, of all the people at the Academy, my future self had thought it was a good idea to lump me with this guy.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Certainly, political and religious leaders, the rich and powerful are mercilessly guyed, but this is surely the mot juste, because the disjunction between these effigies and the people they represent is understood by all.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2015
It's as if they think they have to imitate someone other than themselves, to summon up a pretend, all-purpose actress who can be guyed.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mostly, they guyed Pudgy MacAllister at first; they liked his make-up better owing to the black eye.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw men.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since he is guying his own image.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For a moment I thought he was guying us, but a glance at his eyes told me that he was in deadly earnest.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
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