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If you wanted to observe the fearlessness she had marshaled by age 15 and then spot it in another 15-year-old, the fifth of Odom’s seven grandchildren, it would not be irrational.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020

Although he had marshaled an impressive list of arguments for his hypothesis, he was missing a mechanism.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

“It’s definitely a David-versus-Goliath thing,” Cooper said, adding he was proud of the grass-roots support his side had marshaled.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2014

It had marshaled 43,000 calls to HuffPo demanding that the front page be Breitbart-free, but that's what it does; that's not what offends him.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2011

"And now," said the old chamberlain, always on the lookout to marshal every one as he had marshaled every one at court—"now we will leave the church, and proceed to the Guinigi Tower."

From The Italians by Elliot, Frances