marshal
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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
And in the Central Valley, he waved the ceremonial green flag at a stock car race at the Madera Speedway, where he was named grand marshal of the annual Harvest Classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 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
A new voice took over, identified as a marshal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The bride’s father was an air vice marshal, it was rumored that the Head of State might attend, and Aunty Uju joked about asking him to make her medical officer at Aso Rock.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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A handful of cabinet-level figures in past decades have received a security detail from the marshals, a division of the Justice Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi was arrested in Mexicali on Saturday and handed over to U.S. marshals in San Diego, authorities say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"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
The front of the school was deserted but along the curb United States marshals were spaced, not in uniform but wearing armbands to identify them.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Perhaps in part because of his time overseas in the Air Force, he believed U.S. military, economic and diplomatic power could be marshaled to expand freedom in the world in the American national interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
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
He suggested that the combined resources of the attendees, using their clout to access research, publicity, and people with money, could be marshaled to defeat the worldwide menace of TB, one project at a time.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
They have created the infrastructure and marshalled the resources for an intergenerational struggle.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
They could have had even more with an attack marshalled by Antoine Dupont and Matthieu Jalibert racking up 28 line breaks, 31 defenders beaten, 1,136 carry metres and 24 offloads.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
Born in County Durham, McDonald was court marshalled and discharged from the army in August 2000.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
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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These fall upon the reader more as an unsifted data dump than as a focused marshaling of evidence in aid of human and psychological insight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Navy destroyers, which are highly maneuverable and carry powerful weapons, would likely be used to intercept oil tankers and escort them to a designated marshaling area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
The initiative, described as the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since Apollo, will require significant computing power.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
Rather, it is a portrait of an artist at work, marshaling tremendous resources at great personal expense in pursuit of a result that remains elusive, perhaps to himself most of all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Dumbledore paused for a moment, marshaling his thoughts, and then said, “Four years ago, I received what I considered certain proof that Voldemort had split his soul.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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He is marshalling an inexperienced team and the lack of senior players has shown.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Trains pulled in every 15 or 20 minutes, as many as the endlessly enterprising operators of Ukraine's railway network could find in the sidings and marshalling yards.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
His only involvement for the rest of the day was marshalling his team in the field, often hunched over with hands on knees.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
At last Aurelius overtook him, and after marshalling his forces, began another most furious fight.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
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