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
  • Two enemy soldiers are tasked with the farcical mission of guarding a middle-of-nowhere border in the remote desert.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Visitors have reported seeing soldiers strolling across the fields, a general on the back porch and the sounds of a cook who worked for the family during the war.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Vice presidents used to embrace their role as national leaders who could calm passions rather than partisans who rub salt in every wound.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This question elicited markedly different responses among partisans.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025

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