Thesaurus results for ARMIES

armies

noun

plural of army

as in battalions

a large body of men and women organized for land warfare In 218 b.c., Hannibal crossed the Alps with an army of 26,000 men and, most famously, a number of elephants

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as in swarms

a great number of persons or creatures massed together a vast army of loyal fans in line for the band's farewell concert

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as in teams

a group of people working together on a task an army of rescue workers descended on the tornado-stricken town

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Recent Examples of armies In this island, or this Ireland, in 1986, there were a good number of armies. —

Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026 The promise of automating out the drudgery of work and home by hacking together armies of agents feels so tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach. —

Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026 Ever since Hogan blazed the trail with his success against Gawker, ordinary Americans have increasingly turned to third-party funders, who typically front the costs of a lawsuit in exchange for a share of any recovery, for help taking on billion-dollar corporations with armies of lawyers. —

George Harris, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026 The two-year-old company is among a number of startups trying to build robot armies with the Pentagon. —

Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026 Several popes have even personally led armies into battle, the most recent being Pope Julius II (1503-1513). —

Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026 Of these three exceptions, the only one that still applies is to the children of diplomats, as there are no invading armies, and Native Americans were granted automatic citizenship in 1924. —

Nina Totenberg, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026 Khaki thereafter served as the official color for uniforms of British armies, native and colonial, in India. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026 The case centers around whether the order complies with the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and a decades-old law that has been widely understood to make everyone born in the country a citizen, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and invading armies. —

Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

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Rather, our liberties would be saved by the ragtag battalions of night people doing their tireless work, unpaid, unheralded, and largely unseen.

— Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, historical epics reimagine Ming dynasty battalions fighting fantastical monsters, using special effects and visuals in ways that traditional production might find prohibitively expensive.

— Faye Bradley, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026