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 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 In a mountain town controlled by guerrillas, flags hidden for years out of fear reappeared on rooftops. —

Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025 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 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

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The Israeli military said two of its soldiers were also killed in southern Lebanon.

— Michael Loria, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026
Wives of soldiers picketed at the Kremlin and the Defense Ministry in 2024, and over 1,000 people gathered that same year in the Bashkortostan region to protest the jailing of a local activist, resulting in mass arrests.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026