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marshal

[mahr-shuhl] / ˈmɑr ʃəl /


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Even though the community suffers from extensive poverty due in part to discrimination and the few resources refugees from a war-torn country are able to marshal, it has also produced a large number of entrepreneurs.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 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

A new voice took over, identified as a marshal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

“This arrest demonstrates that time does not erase accountability,” Wing Chau, U.S. marshal for the District of Rhode Island, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

As I drove in and put on the brakes, sending up a shower of snow, a marshal came out to greet me.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Nearby hangs Rockwell’s famous 1964 oil painting showing marshals escorting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges to an integrated school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

On Thursday, federal marshals in Miami took the Tates into custody.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

The introduction of water marshals to oversee terminals and prevent overloading has not yet made a difference.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

Five weeks later, on December 20—381 days after the boycott had started—two federal marshals arrived at the federal courthouse and served written notices on city officials that Montgomery’s buses had to be integrated.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

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

But rather than reacting rashly, he marshaled a tenacious defense, not losing his composure or allowing himself to be tempted into a hotheaded action that could have led to disaster.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 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

A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

In an opinion article written for the Financial Times last week, Bessent has cast the new measures as the “single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

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

Law demolished the arguments of the miasmists, marshaling data to show that local eruptions of equine flu were unrelated to temperature, elevation, soil conditions, changes in weather or any of the other widely touted causes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

It opened a new truck marshaling yard for sorting and dispatching cargo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Dubbed the Genesis Mission, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios called it “the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program.”

From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025

At the time, firefighters credited an extraordinary marshaling of firefighting resources as critical to keeping fires in Northern and Southern California from becoming far worse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025

There was no hair, makeup, or wardrobe to be tended to, no marshaling of our children, no late-night speech being prepped for delivery.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Smith is probably a better batter and Stokes might be more suited to marshalling the lower order.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

Stokes was tactically inert as Saud Shakeel was marshalling Pakistan's lower-order rescue act.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

He had helped Ruto win by marshalling support in Mount Kenya - the biggest voting bloc in the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

At one part of the wall he stopped and peered over, marshalling imaginative forces in attack after attack against it.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford


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