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One of them, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty and is expected to testify against the others, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, in their joint trial next year.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2023
There are shades of Vonnegut in Wright, and shades of John Irving’s Owen Meany in the precocious Harold.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
At Meany, the company will present a three-part new work called “Reckless Underdog,” described as “a lyrical reconstruction of pedestrian movement that defies the limits of time and space.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
“My hopes for the labor movement are growth, dynamism, militancy,” he said in 1979 after the retirement of his mentor, Meany.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023
Ky Ebright and his boys arrived in Seattle late on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 14, and checked into the Edmond Meany Hotel.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Don't listen to meany pants: @reckless and @alexhcranz!
From The Verge ● Aug. 26, 2022
And if any of you feel particularly like an old meany you can substitute Brisbane for the archdeacon and everything will be fine in the autumn.
From Time Magazine Archive
But somehow they would not rub out, and she showed the picture to Woodford, who began to count on his outspread fingers, "Eaney, meany, miny mo."
From Dwellers in the Hills by Post, Melville Davisson
At the laste a squyar of Northumberlande lokyde at his hand full ny; He was war a the doughtie Douglas commynge, with him a myghtë meany.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
You're a brick, and I was a meany to say what I did.
From Marjorie's New Friend by Wells, Carolyn
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