the forces

plural noun

British

: the military organizations (such as the army, navy, and air force) of a country : armed forces

Will the new defense policy weaken the forces?

Examples of the forces in a Sentence

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And so Colette became the resistance, pushing back against all the forces arrayed against her: the storm after the storm. —Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024

But the forces pushing against an agreement are also strong. —Claire Parker, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024

Still, marketers watching the fluctuations in their industry may want to proactively respond to the forces underlying these shifts and rethink their career paths. —Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024

Learn more Jill Cowan is a Times reporter based in Los Angeles, covering the forces shaping life in Southern California and throughout the state. —Jill Cowan, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024

In fact, as Ryback explains, the game plan was to have the Brown Shirts crush the forces of the left—and then to have the regular German Army crush the Brown Shirts. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024

At the same time, the novel is also under threat, as the forces of anti-intellectualism and authoritarianism seek to ban books and curtail freedom of expression. —The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024

Entrenched somewhere between the ancient and the futuristic, La Paz is a city at the mercy of the forces of history and nature. —Javier Rodríguez-Camacho, SPIN, 7 Mar. 2024

Or the forces of capitalism that invited the acclaim in the first place? —Longreads, 1 Mar. 2024