guy
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“They’ve spent 13 years believing That’s the guy that shot me,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I flipped the light switch on and took about two more steps, and there’s a man standing there,” Roebuck recalls, “a little short guy, holding a rifle in his hand.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
I was 16, and I started going to the Denver Folklore Society, which was run by a guy named Lingo the Drifter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The person who got it done was a young, athletic-looking white guy with a buzzcut named Bill Peterson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A guy among the group with a dark blue fedora replies, “Man, I’m going on down to the voting place with my best suit and my best strut. They ain’t even ready!”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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Of course the story got all around the college and Watkins was unmercifully guyed.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
Best shot—the prefects guying Woodley about his love-affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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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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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There was never another syllable of guying, but in its place the fullest meed of such praise and comradeship as is born only of brave and chivalrous men.
From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
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