national guard

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Recent Examples of national guard Mexico is also sending 10,000 national guard troops to its side of the border as part of an agreement to pause tariffs. Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2025 The Ukrainian national guard’s 5th Special Forces Regiment has been firing Javelins at night. David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 But there are a number of national guard and other military bases in the area. Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024 After an initial round of expansion following Russia’s wider invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian ground forces—the army, air assault forces, marine corps, national guard and territorials—could deploy a hundred brigades, each with around 2,000 people. David Axe, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for national guard
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Noun
  • In these, the enemy is not a standing army but various terrorist organizations and looser categories of hostiles, enmeshed in large civilian populations.
    Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The Ukrainian leader also mentioned maintaining the country’s standing army of about one million soldiers and a peacekeeping contingent from European countries, or some combination of these measures.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At first Gabriel is very happy on the ranch, living with their care pod, but as tensions are ratcheted up with a local militia, they’re increasingly exposed to violence and trauma.
    Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
  • The investigation resulted in the charging of over a dozen people linked with a local right-wing militia group, the Wolverine Watchmen.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • On Tuesday afternoon, House Speaker Mike Johnson presented the medal to the family of Charity Adams Earley, the battalion’s commanding officer.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
  • In the clip, a battalion commander for the I.D.F. instructs a group of soldiers who are preparing for a hostage-rescue operation in Rafah.
    Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Russia on Sunday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine, firing 472 drones at an army training site, killing at least 12 soldiers.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Our results challenge a growing idea that hydrogen will be the 'Swiss army knife of decarbonization' and suggest that the opportunities for hydrogen may be narrower than previously thought.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025

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