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as in patrols
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The Vikings were raiders, pirates, traders, explorers, and colonizers who traveled far beyond their homeland in Scandinavia between the 9th and 11 centuries.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026 -
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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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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And unions have been printing and distributing signs, and organizing pickets and mega-rallies.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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But people managed to hold small pickets in a few cities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The venue is part of an ecosystem of three museums grouped under the Long Museum, a private art museum founded by husband-and-wife art collectors Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, which includes the Long Museum Pudong and the Long Museum Chongqing outposts.—
Sandra Salibian for WWD,
ARTnews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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By 2036, the agency aims to sustain a continuous human presence through habitable outposts capable of supporting four-person crews for month-long stays.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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Police said the men took thousands of dollars’ worth of high-end watches from the enclosure.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Just 30 examples will be made—far too few for one of the fair’s best watches.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
22 Apr. 2026
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Additional police resources were deployed to the area from neighboring detachments, along with the North District Emergency Response Team.—
Alexandra Koch , Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Israeli military has amassed two major groups of armored vehicles in Sheikh Radwan, to the north of Gaza City, according to the imagery, with additional detachments of armored vehicles stationed along roads that lead toward Israel.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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But, as academic mastery has become secondary to political consciousness, students are no longer being molded into informed citizens so much as into ideological foot soldiers.—
Courtney Corbello,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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Fans became zealous cultural foot soldiers, streaming, voting and building global communities on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter.—
Dan Bilefsky,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Mar. 2026
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Chernobyl, once a popular tourist destination, has been closed to most visitors since Russian troops, crossing into Ukraine from Belarus, briefly occupied the plant four years ago.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Some 900 people died in the war, including 649 Argentines, 255 British troops and three civilian islanders.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Commandos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commandos. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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