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counterguerrillas

noun

variants also counterguerillas
plural of counterguerrilla
as in guerrillas

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  1. guerrillas
  2. warriors
  3. soldiers
  4. troopers
  5. servicemen
  6. foot soldiers
Noun
  • The atrocities committed in Chile were similar to those in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Central America, where leftist movements and guerrillas were squashed with incredible brutality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Also known by its Spanish acronym AGC, the group evolved from right-wing paramilitary squads that fought Marxist guerrillas in Colombia in the 1990s and 2000s.
    — Maria Verza, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of guerrillas
Noun
  • This was about a hundred uniformed men and a few uniformed women, trained to be stoic warriors.
    — Mabel Yiu, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Here the focus was not nationalism but a spiritual discipline that supposedly allowed warriors to accept death with equanimity.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of warriors
Noun
  • Meanwhile, seven Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa has deployed soldiers to help police combat violent crime and organized gangs.
    — Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of soldiers
Noun
  • After conducting a traffic stop, troopers determined that the vehicle was not registered.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Elsewhere during the operation, ICE agents and troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol worked together to arrest a Mexican cartel member and a Honduran accused of molesting two children, a statement from ICE said.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of troopers
Noun
  • About 167,000 servicemen have returned from Ukraine, presidential administration official Sergei Novikov said in December, although Russian media reports and experts say the number is probably higher.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Its most prominent feature was the Rock, a small mountain honeycombed with thirty-four miles of tunnels that housed some sixteen thousand British servicemen as well as an American liaison office.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of servicemen
Noun
  • But the current Sinaloa turf war—la narcopandemia, locals call it—has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence.
    — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Before the whole scene of domestic bliss is cut short, Cruz and Josie discuss their looming irrelevance as human foot soldiers in a future of wars fought by machines, finding brief solace in each other’s out-of-uniform bodies.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of foot soldiers
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“Counterguerrillas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterguerrillas. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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