Special Forces
plural noun
: a branch of the U.S. Army composed of soldiers specially trained in guerrilla warfare
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Maher spent three years in the Army, ultimately becoming a member of the Green Berets, an elite division of Special Forces soldiers.
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Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
In The Nowhere Man, Lukas (Khoza), a former Special Forces mercenary crippled by PTSD, has turned his back on his violent past and is operating as a junk collector on the streets of Johannesburg.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
Vance is speaking to Army service members at Fort Campbell, home to the 101st Airborne Division, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 5th Special Forces Group, and other Army units.
—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 26 Nov. 2025
But regime change would not require any ground deployments of U.S. forces except, at most, Special Forces raids against regime figures who have already been indicted for narcoterrorism by U.S. law enforcement.
—Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2025
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Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
In The Nowhere Man, Lukas (Khoza), a former Special Forces mercenary crippled by PTSD, has turned his back on his violent past and is operating as a junk collector on the streets of Johannesburg.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
Vance is speaking to Army service members at Fort Campbell, home to the 101st Airborne Division, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 5th Special Forces Group, and other Army units.
—Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 26 Nov. 2025
But regime change would not require any ground deployments of U.S. forces except, at most, Special Forces raids against regime figures who have already been indicted for narcoterrorism by U.S. law enforcement.
—Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for Special Forces
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“Special Forces.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Special%20Forces. Accessed 29 Dec. 2025.
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