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sally

[sal-ee] / ˈsæl i /


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The Uber initiative is the latest sally in a long war pitting plaintiffs and their lawyers against businesses, with legal fees as the battleground.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2026

“Plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information,” a document on Benchwarmer reads.

From Salon Jan. 15, 2026

As with the adoption of Casual Fridays, the first sally in the contemporary battle for comfort, there remains confusion as to what exactly constitutes acceptable office attire.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

The tiny river fly, known as scarce yellow sally, was thought to have died out a few decades ago.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2023

Then, free of weaponry, we passed through the sally port and went back inside the prison.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

She and her brood live high up in the trees, jumping from branch to branch and occasionally making exploratory sallies on the ground.

From Salon May 11, 2025

Here and there decisive sallies rattled the partisans of one side or another, but most battles seemed destined to come to, uh, a stalemate.

From Slate Jan. 25, 2018

Thus stoked, our commander in chief sallies forth to meet with probably the most illustrious collection of aides since Groucho hooked up with Chico and Harpo.

From Washington Post Dec. 11, 2017

The appropriate, time-honored response to the fool’s sallies is to take instruction from them.

From The Guardian Feb. 9, 2017

Two of the Atlas’s last five sallies had ended in failure.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

I sallied forth, seeking a companion to go with me to see Metallica at a 6th Street club.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2022

Yet despite a government determined to constrain their ambition and advancement, they sallied forward to become a lawyer and educator, respectively.

From Washington Post Mar. 21, 2022

One of these counter-offensives came in the form of an appearance from billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks' former chairman, who sallied over to Buffalo to vaguely dissuade pro-union workers from unionizing.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2021

The original movie succeeded in wasting Emmanuelle Béart and Kristin Scott Thomas, and it wasn’t really until Ferguson sallied into film No. 5, toting an assassin’s rifle, that progress began to be made.

From The New Yorker Jul. 26, 2018

When they sallied forth together the neighborhood emptied suddenly of not only cats but of dogs as well.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

All that sallying takes her down some unexpected byways.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Finally, some first-timers are valiantly sallying forth — the kind of debuts that’ll be more and more rare as times only get tougher for the restaurant industry under COVID-19.

From Seattle Times Oct. 10, 2020

This is the most appealing side of Arbus: you feel a gust of Whitman, or of her near-contemporary Allen Ginsberg, in her sallying forth to compile such tumultuous chronicles of America.

From The New Yorker May 30, 2016

For both sides the primary task of this weekend then is not avoiding sallying forth on to the fiscal slope, but making sure their bindings are tight as they do so.

From The Guardian Dec. 28, 2012

We then took hands, and danced round the table, and sallying forth, spent the day in wandering about in a sort of ecstasy in the fields.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville




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