soldiery

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Recent Examples of soldiery 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 That includes the activism and the soldiery. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Aug. 2022 Through Joe, an aspiring journalist, readers experience not only the throb of post-9/11 patriotism but also the tedium, camaraderie and sudden terrors of soldiery in a war zone. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soldiery
Noun
  • 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
  • American, British and other Allied soldiers were much more likely to improvise and continue fighting after officers went down.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • At WikiLeaks, Assange published a swatch of classified information related to the U.S. military and Homeland Security, including footage of an airstrike in Baghdad.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Israel’s astonishing military and intelligence successes have turned its darkest hours into the light of opportunity.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Soldiery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soldiery. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.

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