Thesaurus results for BATTALION

battalion

noun

bə-ˈtal-yən

Definition of battalion

as in army

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare the nation's battalions were forced to fight on two fronts simultaneously

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Recent Examples of battalion The battalion was once again redeployed to the West Bank 30 days later after undergoing an education seminar and additional training. — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 13 July 2026 The Israeli army built another five battalions of soldiers who were never engaged in service or finished their service and wish to return to duty. — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026 Across its 55,000-square-foot footprint, the $24 million building is composed of a learning center and classrooms, company orderly rooms, battalion planning space and secure equipment storage — and carries a plaque honoring the state’s 30th governor. — Kevin Fixler june 26, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2026 Smith is a Cooper City commissioner, battalion chief at Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue and a former president of the Broward County Professional Firefighters and Paramedics union. — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for battalion

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army

Noun

Wars cannot be fought on ideology alone – a truism that perhaps led to the firebrand former defense minister’s departure, after months of clashes and refusing to deal with the army top brass, as Zelensky describes it.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
And because intelligence exists in isolated fragments across different systems, companies end up deploying armies of employees whose primary, manual job is just interpretation.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026