gallowglass

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Noun
  • The story concerns a young shepherd boy who dreams of becoming a knight and receives an enchanted flute, which assists him in his journey to the castle of an evil wizard known as Black Whirlwind.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • By turning Doomguy into a knight wielding a gigantic, spiked shield a huge sword primed for brutal melee takedowns.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sadly, the Ferrari’s promising racing career came to a screeching halt when French gendarmes seized the car at the Paris Orly airport parking lot—something about a dispute between Monsieur Fayen and the French tax authorities.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The mud-slinging scene occurred as thousands more Spanish soldiers, national police officers, and Civil Guard gendarmes arrived, or are set to arrive, at the disaster sites.
    Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • At Contenders, Vindman expressed concern to Deadline’s Matthew Carey that reservists could be weaponized by future presidents.
    Fred Topel, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
  • For months, journalists and nongovernmental organizations had reported systematic abuses at the base, and on July 29, Israel’s military police detained ten Israeli reservists on suspicion of raping one of the prisoners.
    Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Building a roster, and a team, is a one-year venture; coaches who sell earning a diploma and a four-year experience to a recruit are begging to be fired.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2025
  • If a Bonnies recruit is All-Conference one year, he’ll almost certainly be gone the next — to somewhere like Syracuse or Kentucky (or even the N.B.A.).
    Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Even lowly conscripts are being blamed for enabling crimes — whether or not that is true.
    Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In May, Rohingya soldiers grabbed conscripts at gun- or knife-point.
    Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.
    Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The Dodgers, already World Series champions and home to one of the greatest players of all time in Shohei Ohtani, have now secured arguably the most promising prospect in all of baseball.
    Jamie Barton, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • But the odds say the undisputed junior featherweight champion should have a much easier time with late replacement opponent Ye Joon Kim anyway.
    Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Gallowglass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallowglass. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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