guy
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I met a guy two months ago and I really like him.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
There is a certain self-interest that comes from the guy selling picks and shovels to the gold rush saying the gold isn’t dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But, as it was late August, these were the only two people in the office, save for the odd delivery guy, dropping off a package.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
But our guide is just a regular guy, which lends to the charm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s not her fault that we like the same guy.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first day or two the club guyed him for turning poler, and they thought his serious and grave demeanor was very funny when he declined to join with them in their pursuits.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams
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
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
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
They had left off guying him, and were worrying about him instead.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams
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