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Recent Examples of commando
In 2010, an attempt by Israel to stop another flotilla turned deadly after navy commandos boarded one boat, killing at least nine passengers and wounding 30 more.
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New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
In a plot that echoes that of their last film, The Beekeeper, Statham stars as an ex-commando who’s since turned a new leaf as a construction worker.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2025
Habib Diallo, a 60-year-old former army commando, said attending the sermons and discussions with the imam taught him about the risks of home births.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
As the first Russian rockets blasted their targets, and Kremlin commandos launched a cyber-ambush on the American satellite operator Viasat, Intelsat joined forces with Help.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
In a plot that echoes that of their last film, The Beekeeper, Statham stars as an ex-commando who’s since turned a new leaf as a construction worker.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2025
Habib Diallo, a 60-year-old former army commando, said attending the sermons and discussions with the imam taught him about the risks of home births.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
As the first Russian rockets blasted their targets, and Kremlin commandos launched a cyber-ambush on the American satellite operator Viasat, Intelsat joined forces with Help.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commando
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During the search for Kenney, Charleston police deployed multiple resources, including K9 units, an underwater recovery team, the police’s unmanned aerial system team and harbor patrol.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Parlier is a patrol officer in district two and works on the department’s wellness team.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Its namesake, cattleman Oliver Loving, was shot by a band of raiders during a cattle drive in 1866, and died of shock a few days later after a doctor didn’t amputate his gangrenous arm.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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All of them have been broken into by raiders over the centuries, their walls smashed or lids prised off despite once being locked shut with metal clasps.—
Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
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The pair later designed pieces for various regiments of the Royal Guards, the sentries protecting Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace in London.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Reenactors portraying British sentries were bum-rushed by a swarm of whooping Green Mountain Boys.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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Overburdened infantrymen who had been on the front lines for months, some since the Normandy landings, remained there for weeks and months on end.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Decker was an Army infantryman from March 2013 to July 2021, according to FOX 13.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Tobolowsky was happy for the material — much of it from a Sears that was being repurposed into an outpost of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — regardless of its condition.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Burns seems like someone who would fit in at Basgiath, or at one of the outposts on Navarre’s front lines.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Hazardous marine and beach conditions continue today as a cold front pushes through the area later this morning and Hurricane Melissa progresses northwards in the western Atlantic.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2025
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The unidentified men were working as subcontractors at a jobsite at the Rover Street marine dock in Everett when a crane collapsed.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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Baristas at Starbucks cafes across the country are holding pickets this week as part of a collective push for a union contract, and Phoenix workers are joining in.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Where will Starbucks Workers United hold rallies and pickets?—
Mike Snider,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 Oct. 2025
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Rader Lane, the ranger, said researchers had found that the elk might be crowding into the village because the Coconino Rim just south of there, where we were headed next, had a particularly high concentration of mountain lions.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Check with a local ranger for special warnings.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Commando.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commando. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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