guerrillas

variants or guerillas
plural of guerrilla

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Recent Examples of guerrillas As well as the complexities of this Colombian ecosystem between the guerrillas, the military Special Forces, indigenous belief systems, Catholicism? Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025 Its most explosive event was Quantrill’s Raid in August 1863, when a group of Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill laid waste to Lawrence and killed upward of 200 people, some of them as young as 13 years old. Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025 This came after a lengthy trial in which US prosecutors accused him of exchanging firearms for cocaine shipments with the now-defunct FARC guerrillas, whose dissidents in Colombia control some of the key regions for narcotics production. Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 Ruiz Massieu, who has served as special representative of the secretary-general in Colombia since 2019 monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement between the government of Colombia and the FARC-EP guerrillas, arrived in Haiti over the weekend. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guerrillas
Noun
  • Many models are small enough to be carried in a backpack or launched by hand, allowing soldiers to employ them directly in the field without requiring specialized vehicles for transport or deployment.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Minorhad its premiere in Vienna, as the Montgolfier brothers undertook the first manned balloon trip in Paris, and as the Continental Army fought British soldiers in North America.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During World War II, the song was transformed by Italian partisans into an anti-fascist anthem.
    Amanda Castro Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In New York and New Jersey, patriot militias, loyalist partisans and British regulars raided across county lines, targeting farms and neighbors.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025

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