plural Apache or Apaches
ə-ˈpa-chēz 
-ˈpash,
-ˈpa-shəz
1
: a member of a group of Indigenous peoples of the southwestern U.S.
2
: any of the Athabascan languages of the Apache people
3
apache
[French, from Apache "Apache"]
a
: a member of a gang of criminals especially in Paris
b
: ruffian
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Assange and his website claimed responsibility for leaking classified U.S. military documents and videos from the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including video of an Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed civilians.
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Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 5 Jan. 2026
These platforms are available as bare metal or cloud-based servers and can be transformed into dedicated clouds using enterprise virtualization technologies, such as Microsoft Hyper-V, and open-source platforms, including Xen, KVM, Apache CloudStack, VirtualBox, and QEMU.
—Daniel Fusch, IndyStar, 5 Jan. 2026
This includes a Mescalero Apache tribal member who was pulled out of a store and asked for his passport, and a California man who was previously deported by mistake and got another deportation order in the mail.
—Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025
According to O'Malley, most of the rainfall concentrated in northeast Maricopa County, including areas in Fountain Hills and Apache Junction, areas that typically see more precipitation than the rest of the valley.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 Dec. 2025
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Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 5 Jan. 2026
These platforms are available as bare metal or cloud-based servers and can be transformed into dedicated clouds using enterprise virtualization technologies, such as Microsoft Hyper-V, and open-source platforms, including Xen, KVM, Apache CloudStack, VirtualBox, and QEMU.
—Daniel Fusch, IndyStar, 5 Jan. 2026
This includes a Mescalero Apache tribal member who was pulled out of a store and asked for his passport, and a California man who was previously deported by mistake and got another deportation order in the mail.
—Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025
According to O'Malley, most of the rainfall concentrated in northeast Maricopa County, including areas in Fountain Hills and Apache Junction, areas that typically see more precipitation than the rest of the valley.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 Dec. 2025
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“Apache.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Apache. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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Apache
noun
plural Apache or Apaches
: a member of a group of Indigenous peoples of the southwestern U.S.
also
: any of the languages of the Apache people
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