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Recent Examples of gendarmerie
The gendarmerie eventually became the Forces Armées d’Haiti or FADH.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
But the driver sensed something wrong and brought him to the gendarmerie police.
—Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
After a night at the gendarmerie, he was sent to a nearby prison that was notorious for overcrowding, drug use and suicide.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
In response to the growing threat of internal insurrection, King Boris III’s government deployed the gendarmerie to stamp out the partisan threat.
—Kristen Ghodsee, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2015
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
But the driver sensed something wrong and brought him to the gendarmerie police.
—Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
After a night at the gendarmerie, he was sent to a nearby prison that was notorious for overcrowding, drug use and suicide.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
In response to the growing threat of internal insurrection, King Boris III’s government deployed the gendarmerie to stamp out the partisan threat.
—Kristen Ghodsee, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gendarmerie
Noun
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The goal is to slow Russia's advance and weaken their fighting power while sacrificing as few Ukrainian soldiers as possible.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
24 Dec. 2024
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When Jordan sealed its border in 2016 after an ISIS attack killed six Jordanian soldiers, most of the Syrian civilians were trapped — unable to move forward or go back through roads controlled by the Syrian regime or even move through a desert laid with land mines.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
24 Dec. 2024
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Moscow is not about to waste vital resources in airpower, weaponry or soldiery on peripheral endeavors such as supporting Assad or the Mullahs.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
1 Dec. 2024
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That includes the activism and the soldiery.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
15 Aug. 2022
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Throughout the morning, surveillance drones flew over Gaza and the Israeli military reported strikes in the territory.—
Jerome Socolovsky,
NPR,
19 Jan. 2025
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The Israeli military said on Sunday afternoon local time that it had been informed by the Red Cross that the three hostages, named by media reports as Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, were in the custody of the humanitarian organization and en route to Israeli forces in Gaza.—
Ellie Cook,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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The historical drama about Black military women who heroically solved a massive backlog of mail to servicemen during World War II is #2.—
Tom Brueggemann,
IndieWire,
23 Dec. 2024
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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
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The foxes are a legacy of the 2006 war between Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Israel, when the animals moved down to the coast to escape fighting in the hills.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
22 Jan. 2025
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Trump commuted the sentence of Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Check out my top picks for data removal services here.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
19 Jan. 2025
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The funds will go towards annual exams, cancer screenings, birth control and other family planning services.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Gendarmerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gendarmerie. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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