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or guerilla
as in soldier
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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Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Petro said the surge began under former President Iván Duque, a right-wing leader who governed from 2018 to 2022, blaming him for failing to implement the 2016 peace agreement between the leftist FARC guerrilla and then-President Juan Manuel Santos.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
Paolo Luers, a journalist and former guerrilla press officer who became part of Mijango’s team, told me.
—Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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Noun
Their guerrilla tactics were effective, and in 1533 the Spanish signed a treaty with their chief leader, Enriquillo, that ended hostilities in exchange for land and freedom.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Petro said the surge began under former President Iván Duque, a right-wing leader who governed from 2018 to 2022, blaming him for failing to implement the 2016 peace agreement between the leftist FARC guerrilla and then-President Juan Manuel Santos.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
That was the year that social media really started to take off, which gave restaurants and bars this megaphone to kind of guerrilla market on their own.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
Paolo Luers, a journalist and former guerrilla press officer who became part of Mijango’s team, told me.
—Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guerrilla
Noun
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Earlier this year, the Israeli military retrieved the body of another soldier who was killed in the 2014 war.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Just off the Gregory House, a trail leads to the Hammock Landing Battery, where Confederate soldiers guarded the river from attack, protecting their manufacturing hub in Columbus, Georgia.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Ludwig’s distant paternal ancestors were in fact German Jewish merchants, not warlike princes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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To many Chicagoans, the warlike atmosphere is the result of the increasing aggression of the federal government.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Beloved by liberal partisans and loathed by their counterparts, Pelosi was one of the last engineers of an old-school political machine that could count votes better than anyone in a generation.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Critics will predictably argue that those two positions are inherently linked; on the opposite side of the political spectrum, oil and gas partisans could point to Gates’ essay as proof that climate hysteria was misguided all along and that fossil use should continue unimpeded.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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About 9,614 were in military stockpiles for potential use, including 3,912 that are currently deployed.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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There will be fire trucks, youth groups, classic cars, military vehicles and local dignitaries.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Hazardous marine and beach conditions continue today as a cold front pushes through the area later this morning and Hurricane Melissa progresses northwards in the western Atlantic.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
30 Oct. 2025
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The unidentified men were working as subcontractors at a jobsite at the Rover Street marine dock in Everett when a crane collapsed.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Reiner joined the writers’ room, an orderly place at first but eventually the loudest, most combative fourteen-by-twenty enclave in New York.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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And after combative floor debates throughout the afternoon, Democrats blocked the advancement of a GOP bill to pay federal workers and military personnel during government shutdowns.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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With El Fasher now apparently in the hands of the RSF, the whole of Darfur is under the paramilitary's control.—
NPR,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That’s the kind of chance that last season, a more aggressive-looking Stolarz would have used his frame — and frankly, his big-game presence — to turn away with ease.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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The agency has also faced criticism for aggressive tactics used by ICE agents in executing the president’s immigration policy.—
Andy Rose 19 hr ago,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Guerrilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guerrilla. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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