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Recent Examples of person Some can be bought ready-made, while others can possibly be pulled together from what the person already owns. Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2025 The person is set to get richer after trying their luck on Red Hot Numbers, a Fast Play game that features a progressive jackpot. Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025 Joshua Smellie, 34, of Hartford, has been arrested and is charged with first-degree assault, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal use of a firearm, risk of injury, first-degree reckless endangerment, and third-degree assault on an elderly person, according to the Hartford Police Department. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025 The cost is $65 per person in a group, or $85 per person for a private hike. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for person
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Noun
  • As Rusby talks of finding god and becoming a better man, Kev screws a silencer onto his pistol.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
  • With 4:25 remaining in the third quarter and the Thunder down by 38, Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault conceded and subbed out his star man – much to the delight of the home crowd, which had booed him incessantly throughout.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • When the politician begins to speak of evacuation plans the guy immediately shouts him down.
    Lauren Wissot, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
  • Other impact guys include USC RB Quinten Joyner and Miami (Ohio) WR Reggie Virgil. 20.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Seeing any woman, particularly a Black woman, establish herself as independently wealthy without the help of a spouse or parent is admirable and reflects an urge in younger generations to live a life that wasn’t as accessible to those who came before us.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 19 May 2025
  • An effort to extend the life of the B61 nuclear bomb also faced significant delays and saw costs more than double – to the tune of an additional $4 billion.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • They are set upon by one of Eudoxia’s five sons and his warband of mutant creatures – half-man, half-animal abominations created by the former Empress as part of her many diabolical experiments.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • Danielle Dufault/Royal Ontario Museum Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more than 500 million years ago.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • While Trump had initially proposed sending thousands of individuals to the facility, logistical and legal challenges limited the effort.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • Lawmakers of both parties have expressed intense anger over the hospital funding cut, saying that individuals with mental health issues are languishing in emergency rooms and jail cells due to a shortage of psychiatric hospital beds.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Instead of approaching them and giving them the opportunity to say mean things to you, consider trying to make friends with other girls -- girls who might like to be friends with you too.
    Mark Mondier, Arkansas Online, 18 May 2025
  • One of the many things the directors wanted to emphasize was the atmosphere of peace at the encampments.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 17 May 2025

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“Person.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/person. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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