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marshal

[mahr-shuhl] / ˈmɑr ʃəl /


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Accompanied by a deputy U.S. marshal, Gorsuch sought their arrest under the newly enacted Fugitive Slave Law.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 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

Bonta’s office, along with state fire marshal, are also challenging that oversight in court, arguing the lines that run through Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties were incorrectly reclassified as intrastate pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The closest woman for the job was Gail Curley, the Supreme Court’s marshal.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2026

To marshal further evidence, Galton began to reconstruct pedigrees of eminent men.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

He marshals his commanding technique with the openness and vulnerability that have distinguished his whole career.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Several dozen marshals eventually came to the rescue and managed slowly to clear an exit path.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

That they marshaled to conduct military exercises shows the depth of their fear.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 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

Minya marshaled a dozen ghosts at all times, even in her sleep.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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 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

By 2010, Woodcock had marshalled the center into a powerhouse with great independence — in many ways, outside the reach of the political whims of the commissioners who came and went.

From Salon Jun. 18, 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

He wanted more of them and made his name marshaling often arcane data to win arguments.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Most of these ships have the ability to launch helicopters that support boarding operations, and some are capable of marshaling commercial vessels to specific areas to hold them in place.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

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

One wine-sodden taleteller even claimed that Rhaegar Targaryen had returned from the dead and was marshaling a vast host of ancient heroes on Dragonstone to reclaim his father's throne.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Dorgu man-marked Rico Lewis - nullifying his influence as he moved into central attacking positions - while Amad often dropped into the defensive line to form a back five, marshalling Jeremy Doku well.

From BBC Jan. 17, 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

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

From BBC Nov. 30, 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

And, what's more," he went on, marshalling his ideas, "it remains to be proved that there has been any mistake.

From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas




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