Thesaurus results for BATTALION

battalion

noun

bə-ˈtal-yən

as in army

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare the nation's battalions were forced to fight on two fronts simultaneously

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Recent Examples of battalion Everyone in the organization, from firefighters up to battalion chief, participated in the training. —

Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 The cat who died, from a different apartment, was retrieved by firefighters and reunited with its owners, the battalion chief said. —

Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026 The night also celebrated the anniversary of the city’s adoption of the battalion in 1996, an effort spearheaded by former mayor Wayne Eggleston, who created the Heritage of San Clemente Foundation to benefit local Marines. —

Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 5 Apr. 2026 Earlier this month, two peacekeepers from Ghana were critically injured when their battalion’s headquarters was hit by Israeli tank fire. —

Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for battalion

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army

Noun

This man who had overseen the protection of national artworks from the advancing German army—this man wept like a child on the floor and begged his mistress not to abandon him.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
Since seizing power in a 2022 coup, Burkina Faso’s junta has cracked down on political dissent and journalists, shutting down independent media outlets and forcibly conscripting dissidents into the army to fight Islamic militants.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026