counterguerrilla

variants also counterguerilla

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterguerrilla
Noun
  • Two months later, the group launched more than two dozen attacks across northeastern Syria, relying on a combination of guerrilla tactics, including small arms fire, ambushes, assassinations, and improvised explosive devices targeting military checkpoints and government vehicles.
    Caroline Rose, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In response, Findikoglu staged her own guerrilla fashion show outside the show’s entrance, which certainly generated a lot of headlines.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The existence of the irregulars raises an important question: How small can a galaxy get?
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
  • The moons, observed from 2019 to 2021 at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, were placed into subgroups within two categories of Saturnian irregulars; the Inuit group contains the Kiviuq and Siarnaq subgroups, and the Norse group contains the Phoebe, Mundilfari, and Kari subgroups.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Previously, a court order was required to collect the samples from fallen soldiers.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Jerusalem — On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Also today at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Hounsou is an immortal warrior from Africa, while Abela is MacLeod’s modern romantic interest.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But then, the state police were called in because the mall didn’t have enough security—that’s my understanding—so state troopers came in and shut it down.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The cult hit comedy franchise Super Troopers revolves around the shenanigans of a group of Vermont state troopers who are slacker pranksters first and foremost.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unverified image of a Russian serviceman holding a Ukrainian Baba Yaga drone on August 6, 2024.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The home had been loaned to the federal government's United Service Organization (U.S.O.) to serve as a hub of entertainment for the servicemen and women who were training at the nearby U.S. Naval Air Station Grosse Ile, which operated from 1927-1969 as a flight-training base.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Counterguerrilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterguerrilla. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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