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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

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

“But we also have twins of our providers,” Mandadi said, helping the company marshal the clinical evidence and other key information necessary to motivate prescribers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

He followed orders, however, and the former grand marshal of the fair wound up fighting the men who had built it.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

Leclerc was unhurt and the race was stopped while the marshals rebuilt the barriers at the famous final corner.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

I’d heard of sheriffs and marshals, but had never seen one.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who first proposed the park and marshaled $500 million in state funding for it, said he is hoping it can help jump-start Illinois’s economic growth, which has lagged behind the nation’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

The same is true for marshaled and marshaling.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

Letby's defence have, meanwhile, marshalled numerous arguments against the insulin theory.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

A bigger briefcase was seen as a sign that Greenspan was marshaling evidence for raising rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

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

“Kara went for it. She did what artists do in terms of marshaling an energy and force, and then concentrating it on this object and coming up with this piece.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

He thought of Grandfather on a huge white horse, marshaling the people.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Ukrainian and Russian officials visited the city together on Friday, delivering aid and marshalling those who wanted to leave in a rare show of cooperation between the warring sides.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

Joachim Andersen, the only recognised centre-back in the visitors' XI, was supreme in marshalling a back three that also contained full-back Clyne and midfielder Jefferson Lerma.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2024

Although technically it may be called an epistolary novel, its author is no Richardson in marshalling the strategies of the epistolary technique.

From Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady by Anonymous


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