muster
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This segment will need to pass the muster of the same state regulators and courts that held up Keystone XL.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Behind Paramount’s pivot is a desperate scramble to bolster its legal case and muster funds to help finance a deal Warner shareholders approved in April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Sometimes she works with family members of someone who is ill, who she said are mostly looking to muster resources and handle what’s in front of them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
They need only ensure that the commission cannot muster four votes.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
“If I am not mistaken,” she said, with all the professionalism she could muster, “you are the Long-Lost Lumleys.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
But Romania, whether on or off the studio lot, only occasionally musters a decent impression of 19th century Virginia, reminding you, as “The Gray House” often does, that this is only a movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
"Even a cinematic maestro occasionally musters up a misfire," the Razzies said, in a press release announcing Coppola's win.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
And as is also his way, he musters up one big swing that cracks harder than all the rest.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
While Faist must hide his light under the bushel of an ostentatious 1970s mustache, he, like Boutsikaris and the love interest Crystal Reed, musters up noteworthy charm.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
That Friday gang probably musters a hundred by this time.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
Both Musk and OpenAI have mustered high-dollar legal armies who are prepared to wage potentially years of litigation, including this federal trial.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
The European Commission has mustered a team to try to break the deadlock over Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
But he mustered the strength to look through the family’s large photo album ahead of the U.S. championships and pick out several photos he brought to the competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Yet Newcastle never looked like producing a similar moment as Sunday's game went on, and forwards Yoane Wissa and Nick Woltemade mustered just a measly shot between them.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
In March, however, he mustered his resolve once more and resumed his lonely trek.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Camel number are kept in check by mustering, shooting and trapping at water points.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
I’m not sure we have an adequate process for mustering the necessary social wherewithal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Times, declared, “I have a hard time even mustering a ‘meh.’
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2024
The visitors were being made to pay for only mustering 218 with the bat, India more than doubling that in reaching 473-8 by the end of the second day.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2024
Clare released a cry, mustering whatever strength was left in him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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