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[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

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

“This arrest demonstrates that time does not erase accountability,” Wing Chau, U.S. marshal for the District of Rhode Island, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The US president refers to Munir as his "favourite field marshal", following their acquaintance in the aftermath of conflict with India that Trump helped mediate last year.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

He said he would call a friend, a U.S. marshal, who he knew was near the city.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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

Ms. Eubanks marshals statistics to show the physical, emotional and financial toll on those who love them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

‘I will ride now to the Hold, and there before I go to rest I will meet the marshals and captains. Let them come to me as soon as may be!’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

In a letter to Congress, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department marshaled a team of more than 200 lawyers to review materials for potential release.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

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

Tel was lively and hit the bar immediately after Igor Jesus' opener but faded in the second half with Forest's defence - expertly marshalled by Nikola Milenkovic - repelling everything.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Born in County Durham, McDonald was court marshalled and discharged from the army in August 2000.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

The indefatigable bell now sounded for the fourth time: the classes were marshalled and marched into another room to breakfast: how glad I was to behold a prospect of getting something to eat!

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

These fall upon the reader more as an unsifted data dump than as a focused marshaling of evidence in aid of human and psychological insight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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

“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

“We should get you out of here,” Theo says, finally latching on to what I was trying to tell him, marshaling me toward the stairwell.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Trusty alone made 17 clearances and three interceptions, marshalling the depleted visitors to great effect.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Moving the cruise berth will also free up space to expand the harbour's existing marshalling area for wind turbines.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 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

This principle he strove to reduce to practice by marshalling all his authorities under their respective heads, and then regarding the evidence, not of individuals, but of the classes to which they belong.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener


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