DOUGHBOYS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

doughboys

noun

plural of doughboy

as in infantrymen

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civilians

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Noun

Israel says four of its soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
The film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, sees the pair interview Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers (faces concealed, voices digitally altered) on rooftops in Tel Aviv about the civilian death toll in Gaza.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of soldiers

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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