GUERILLAS Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

guerrillas

noun

variants or guerillas

plural of guerrilla

as in soldiers

a member of a usually small group of soldiers who do not belong to a regular army and who fight in a war as an independent unit The guerrillas controlled half the country.

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Recent Examples of guerrillas García said mining areas in Bolívar state remain under the control of organizations such as gangs such as Tren de Aragua and Tren de Guayana and ELN guerrillas, which operate across different mines and control workers, transport routes and processing centers. —

Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026 Petro did not participate in the attack, which left several guerrillas and around half the high court's magistrates dead. —

Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026 The guerrillas agreed to lay down their weapons, face justice, and compensate their victims in exchange for political guarantees and government promises to develop poor, rural areas that gave rise to the FARC in the 1960s. —

John Otis, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026 The executions followed the killing of a German general and his staff by communist guerrillas a few days earlier. —

CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026 Paksa taught drawing and painting to children and met weekly with members of Juventud Peronista (JP), an unarmed wing of the Montoneros guerrillas that focused on community outreach and education. —

Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026 Occupying the highland are the Hazerans, who pride themselves on their toughness and their willingness to fight alongside government forces against terrorist guerillas. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 Armed with quantitative and qualitative data, matrix members regularly meet with stakeholders – including victims, former guerrillas and politicians – to assess the status of implementation and to identify areas that need to be prioritized. —

Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025 The group began in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a means of self-protection for prisoners, and was inspired by leftist guerrillas. —

Rebecca Schneid, Time, 29 Oct. 2025

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Prisoners exchanged Russia's Defense Ministry said that a prisoner swap Saturday brought home 175 of its soldiers.

— CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
Another work from this era, Veterans Day (2016), features a flow of musical notes that surround a framed newspaper article about the conviction of Muhammad Ali for refusing to fight in the American war in Vietnam and an old photograph of soldiers raising their fists.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 Apr. 2026