muster
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But “Club Kid” is so assured and heartwarming that you can’t muster the energy to object.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Perhaps the mayor will now muster some sympathy for businesses mugged in similar schemes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Twenty-one high-flying contestants are vying to win £100,000 for their charity of choice with all the charm, persuasion and manipulation they can muster.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall gained a harsh reputation for firing senior officers who didn’t pass muster in the crucible of combat.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
He almost said, Like we always do, but couldn’t muster the confidence.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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"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
Both are longtime members of a local search and rescue team that musters after accidents to help find and dig out fatal avalanche victims.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Ruzowitzky, who directed the Academy Award-winning World War II drama “The Counterfeiters,” has a taste for the dark bargains of war and its aftermath, though here he mostly musters a neo-noir mood of regret.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Annual musters were held, either by the king in person or by generals deputed for the purpose and invested with full powers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
However clinical Newcastle were in the opening weeks of the campaign, they mustered just eight efforts on target against Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth before their trip to Elland Road.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Through five innings, they mustered only two baserunners against Tigers starter Keider Montero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The model was so successful that it ushered in a whole offseason of win-or-bust moves as teams mustered the courage to take greater risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
While Wall Street was broadly negative, the Dow still mustered a gain to push it to a third straight record close.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
As the British marched on to Concord—rank on rank, as if on parade—the Patriots’ spy network mustered hundreds of militiamen.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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It’s a song about weariness, the difficulty of facing the day, wondering if life means anything and mustering just enough hope to carry on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A couple of young women stood for a long time holding a bunch of flowers, mustering the courage to venture through the crowd towards the table.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
I’m not sure we have an adequate process for mustering the necessary social wherewithal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
The outfit didn’t evoke a fearless mustering of Real American patriots so much as a Chippendale dancer gone to seed.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2024
There he is, I said, mustering all the excitement I could find in my empty till.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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