counterguerrilla

variants also counterguerilla
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Noun
  • Prometheus got something of a rehab a few years ago, and a while after that, a couple of guerrilla artists stuck an outsized meth pipe in his hand.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • President Javier Milei’s government has called for a broader account that also includes victims of left-wing guerrilla violence, which some suggest is a way to minimize the crimes of the dictatorship.
    Juan Melamed, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some galaxies, known as irregulars, don't fit neatly into either mold.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The existence of the irregulars raises an important question: How small can a galaxy get?
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The village’s Black residents, including Hettie, are energized by a promising but tangled effort to redress a long-standing injustice—the unequal compensation received by Black South African soldiers in the Second World War.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The theology in such conflicts usually masks more primal power struggles and still tends to make the wars and warriors more fanatical and bloodthirsty.
    Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Fearless Fremen warrior Chani (Zendaya) returns in a different romantic capacity.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, said the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, launched two drone strikes on Al-Jabalain Hospital in the White Nile province, hitting an operating theater and a maternity ward.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Among them was the late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, creating a power vacuum largely filled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful paramilitary, political and economic group.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Two more passengers were taken to the hospital, one by helicopter and another by ambulance, troopers said.
    Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Players create an agent who is among the first wave of Strategic Homeland Division troopers activated during the crisis.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Ahmadian released the statement the same day that an American war plane was shot down over Iran, with rescue operations still underway for one serviceman.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Bahrain's ministry of defense described the UAE serviceman as a civilian contractor and Moroccan national.
    Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Counterguerrilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterguerrilla. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.

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