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Recent Examples of commando
Second to going commando, these 20 lightweight, nearly invisible styles won’t let a panty line ruin your workout class (or your tailor’s hard work).
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Abby Morgan Lebet, InStyle, 22 Jan. 2026
Key to this is Fiennes’ commando performance, a tour de force with so few f*cks given that the film’s astonishing, electrifying climax could put him back into the awards conversation with a part that couldn’t be farther away from Conclave’s Cardinal Thomas.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2026
Her burgeoning operation happens to coincide with the plans of eponymous, Nazi-scalping commando unit, which has become the scourge of the Third Reich.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Last time around, decommissioned Finnish army commando Aatami Korpi (Tommila) only wanted to be left alone as WW2 wound down.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
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Abby Morgan Lebet, InStyle, 22 Jan. 2026
Key to this is Fiennes’ commando performance, a tour de force with so few f*cks given that the film’s astonishing, electrifying climax could put him back into the awards conversation with a part that couldn’t be farther away from Conclave’s Cardinal Thomas.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2026
Her burgeoning operation happens to coincide with the plans of eponymous, Nazi-scalping commando unit, which has become the scourge of the Third Reich.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Last time around, decommissioned Finnish army commando Aatami Korpi (Tommila) only wanted to be left alone as WW2 wound down.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commando
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In drills, Taiwan has rehearsed repelling a seaborne assault with drones, fast patrol craft, mobile Hsiung Feng anti-ship missiles and Marine Corps teams.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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During the chase, a deputy got out of his patrol vehicle to try to deploy stop sticks in the truck's path, but the driver rammed the deputy's vehicle.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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All that maritime commerce also attracted its fair share of Viking raiders from Scandinavia.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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The soldiers would have stayed as sentries before and after the performance, symbolically guarding the legacy of Taiwan’s founder.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Police had taped off several square blocks around Sixth Street, while local police and federal authorities, including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents, were at the site, according to Austin police officers serving as sentries.—
Jack Myer,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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On the corners are statues of an infantryman, sailor, artilleryman and cavalryman, each drawn from actual war dead.—
Bill Steiden,
Des Moines Register,
24 Mar. 2026
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Kent enlisted in the Army at 18, starting as an infantryman and then joining the Ranger Regiment and then the Special Forces, also known as the Green Berets.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
18 Mar. 2026
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The immersive-entertainment company’s alien theme fits well within the surreal sculptures at its Denver outpost as designers and models take the stage at its Perplexiplex venue for a night of beautiful and bizarre creations.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
26 Mar. 2026
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The luxury hotel brand’s first outpost in Tokyo only opened in autumn 2025, but its faultlessly helpful staff seem to have already accrued a generation’s worth of Japanese hospitality.—
Stephen Kelly,
TheWeek,
26 Mar. 2026
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While shallow marine ecosystems collapsed under falling oxygen levels, deeper-water species weathered the crisis in more stable conditions, then persisted into the post-extinction world that the Huayuan biota captures.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2026
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Life sciences, marine and pharma are other leading targets.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026
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With the rise of incel content and tradwife propaganda on social media networks, America may be more fixated on the picket-fence ideal than ever.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Mar. 2026
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Some went to court to challenge government refusals to authorize pickets, while others scaled them back to smaller indoor gatherings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2026
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The parcels, located near the Saddle Mountain area of the park just off Highway 236 on its eastern edge, will be used as part of the rebuilding effort after the 2020 CZU Lightning Fire, which burned 97% of Big Basin, including ranger housing, the visitor center and campgrounds.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Goins recalls showing up for his first day on the job as a ranger at what was then known as Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1987.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Commando.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commando. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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