the Pentagon

noun

1

: the building in Washington, D.C., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense

2

: the leaders of the U.S. military

There was disagreement between the President and the Pentagon over the new military budget.

Examples of the Pentagon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One of the sources said over 850 have been used so far in the conflict, roughly nine times the number of Tomahawks the Pentagon buys each year on average. —CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026

Among the few exceptions is the $20 billion contract that the Pentagon signed this month with Anduril, an American defense-technology company founded in 2017. —Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026

While diplomatic efforts continue, the Pentagon is preparing to deploy as many as 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East, with some of those forces already in transit. —Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026

Anthropic had sought stronger guarantees that the Pentagon would not use its AI systems for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. —Gary Grumbach, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026

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