marshal
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He has already been promoted to field marshal and chief of defense forces, a role that gives him authority over the air force and navy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
For the last 19 years, student-loan lender Sallie Mae has commissioned a study on how families marshal all the economic forces at their disposal to pay for college.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The closest woman for the job was Gail Curley, the Supreme Court’s marshal.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
His international rise has coincided with a consolidation of military power in Pakistan, which has seen the field marshal given an extended term.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
The marshal was still standing where I had left him.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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"We thank you for your patience with this matter. Please listen to the instructions from the safety personnel and marshals who are there to support you."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
On Thursday, federal marshals in Miami took the Tates into custody.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Before letting us start, the track marshals made us take down the GoPro camera attached to the windshield, which would otherwise have been pointed at my horrified face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Orange and Santa Clara county officials worked with the FBI and U.S. marshals to locate and bring Kim back to the states to face felony charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
The fire marshals and bomb squad pick through the burned-out section in the back that serves as an annex for the office, where we keep voting registration and contributor records.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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New York City’s charismatic mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won his election as a DSA member in 2025 and has since marshaled political support for fellow progressives running for other offices in the city he runs.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
He marshaled data to suggest a productivity boom thanks to personal computing was under way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Don’t question whether he marshaled a compelling reason to do so.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2026
Even the Treasury’s pivot toward heavier Treasury bill financing points to a world in which market structure, regulation, and innovation are quietly being marshaled to sustain an ever-larger debt load.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
The military provided the model for the chain of command; enlisted men and women were marshaled daily by their superior officers into a battle of wills with the mass of angry and resentful prisoners.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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For months, faith-based and secular groups there have marshalled thousands of volunteers to prepare for a potential mass deportation event they fear could result in a humanitarian crisis.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
They have created the infrastructure and marshalled the resources for an intergenerational struggle.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
India were 161-2 in the 22nd over when the former captain was dismissed and run-scoring became more difficult in the middle overs but the hosts were superbly marshalled by Kohli.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
Letby's defence have, meanwhile, marshalled numerous arguments against the insulin theory.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
There on the wide flats beside the noisy river were marshalled in many companies well nigh five and fifty hundreds of Riders fully armed, and many hundreds of other men with spare horses lightly burdened.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The initiative, described as the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since Apollo, will require significant computing power.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
This time, financiers are marshaling even larger sums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
“I’m just trying to understand what would motivate the officers ... to grab such a large number of people so quickly and without marshaling reasonable suspicion to detain,” said Judge Ronald M. Gould of Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
In South Korea, the country’s sprawling family-run conglomerates turbocharged the "Miracle on the Han River" by marshaling capital, technology and labor to industrialize the country at breakneck speed.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
The same is true for marshaled and marshaling.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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At the heart of it all was the magnificent Gabriel, repelling all Brighton's borders and marshalling resources with his outstanding central defensive partner William Saliba missing through injury.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Moving the cruise berth will also free up space to expand the harbour's existing marshalling area for wind turbines.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025
Accurate CFRs are critically important in an outbreak because marshalling a public health response depends on understanding the disease’s severity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
Recognizing this link between widely consumed food and disease is essential in marshalling forces to change harmful outcomes.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
Here Arabism and Islam rule unchecked, and in the preceding chapter we saw how the Senussi Order was marshalling the fierce nomads of the desert.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
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