guy
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If the bond market is offering a review of the new US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, it seems to be saying “This guy may not know what’s going on.”
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
The youngest-ever army secretary has often been referred to as President Donald Trump's "drone guy".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
He has to make a decision that might hurt other people or get messy, and he’s not a messy guy at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Why, they wonder, does a guy take “that crazy painting of his seriously?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
“This Reardon guy probably doesn’t have anything to do with you. That Post-it must have been on some other paper in there. Maybe . . . Is your dad a spy or something?”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
The tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
All my life I have had a horror of practical joking, and I very quickly decided I would not be among the guyed.
From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
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
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
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
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Near by, the rest of the party were striving to conceal their lack of interest by guying the crowd below.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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