counterguerrillas

noun

variants also counterguerillas
Definition of counterguerrillasnext
plural of counterguerrilla
as in guerillas

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  1. warriors
  2. soldiers
  3. troopers
  4. servicemen
Noun
  • This existential threat doesn’t sit well with women who embrace the calling to be advocates, allies or social justice warriors – not just for Black people, but for all people.
    Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The editors were able to fuse a powerful depiction of unlikely warriors in a conflict zone with a loving and surprising portrait of artists.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of warriors
Noun
  • It is based on her reporting about the murder by Salvadoran soldiers of more than 1,000 civilian residents of the village of El Mozote in 1981, and the return of survivors years later.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Decades after Israeli soldiers raped and killed a Palestinian teenager during a massacre of Bedouins, a woman in Ramallah becomes obsessed with the story and sneaks into Israel to find out more.
    The Week US, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of soldiers
Noun
  • The troopers reads him his Miranda rights and puts him in handcuffs shortly thereafter.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • State troopers found a sinkhole in the area near the car nearly the size of a manhole cover.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of troopers
Noun
  • These ex-servicemen would need food, sundries, smokes — hundreds of things, and thousands in pension dollars landed in their pockets, right?
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Remember that the Pentagon is three million servicemen and women and civilians.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of servicemen
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