paramilitaries

noun

plural of paramilitary
as in guerrillas

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  1. guerrillas
  2. soldiers
  3. servicemen
  4. troopers
  5. warriors
Noun
  • About 70% of them are former FARC guerrillas, 29% are former members of the security forces and the rest are civilians.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • Cepeda had participated in and continued throughout the campaign to promote negotiations with guerrillas and cartels.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Definition of guerrillas
Noun
  • Two soldiers were also killed in an attack near the White House last year.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Police, soldiers and volunteers have been combing through wreckage.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of soldiers
Noun
  • The wreckage of the plane and 10 of the servicemen were never found.
    — Hope McKenney, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
  • At least two British servicemen, the late Capt.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
Definition of servicemen
Noun
  • Records from that time indicated state troopers found Farinacci sitting on a park bench, out of breath, the affidavit reads.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • He was directed to come to the Fairfield rest area to meet with troopers and, once there, was identified as 44-year-old Jeffrey Guerette of Bridgeport, according to state police.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of troopers
Noun
  • While Homer followed warriors sailing home from Troy, the playwright Euripides — writing some three centuries later — turned to the city’s ruins and its women, forced into exile and enslavement.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In the beginning, Piker wanted to show young men that leftists could be fun — not just woke social-justice warriors and PC scolds.
    — Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of warriors
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