national guard

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Recent Examples of national guard Career before politics: Vance: Marine, author, venture capitalist Walz: Army national guard reservist, teacher Both men have attacked the other’s prior careers: Vance has gone after Walz’s military service while Walz has claimed that Vance’s memoir misrepresents small-town America. Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 The influx of national guard troops led to New York’s partial liberation this weekend. David Axe, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024 On Monday night, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced the cancellation of the first day of school in public schools, the activation of the national guard and the opening of hundreds of shelters throughout the island. Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024 Mexican military, police and national guard members: Filming in Weatherford on Aug. 1. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for national guard 
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Noun
  • China has the most manpower, with the largest standing army in the world.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Dec. 2024
  • What's more, the militias were renamed the National Guard and unconstitutionally transformed from a check on federal power to a second federal standing army.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Unlike the Biden administration, then, the Trump team may have little regard for the potential blowback from a sustained attempt to erode the capabilities of the Houthis in Yemen and Iraq’s Shiite militias.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • How Syria rebels' stars aligned for Assad's ouster After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Trap has a Hitchcockian setup, in which a serial killer (the wonderfully nervy Josh Hartnett) brings his daughter to a pop concert and then must escape a battalion of police who are after him, without giving away his secret.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Part of a guarantor force—such as air defense and combat air patrols or a spearhead battalion to serve in a training role—could even be deployed while the war is still underway.
    Elie Tenenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The rapid advance of opposition forces left little resistance from the Syrian army, which disintegrated as the rebels moved into Damascus.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The relationship went both ways, with Hezbollah fighters serving as shock troops that bolstered Assad’s flagging army — an intervention the group justified as protecting Shiite minorities and shrines in Syria from Islamist and jihadi factions in the opposition.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024

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“National guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/national%20guard. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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