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Recent Examples of infantry
For ten days in July, fighter jets roared, infantry exchanged fire in crowded streets, and mobile missile launchers twirled their payloads from sandy beachheads as part of its annual Han Kuang exercises.
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Many of them go on to fight in the infantry.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
The Army Specialized Training Program recruits, among them Henry Kissinger and Kurt Vonnegut, were reassigned to infantry divisions bound for Germany.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Minogue is a 1989 graduate of West Point who served as an infantry platoon leader in Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 successful coalition invasion of Iraq to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Many of them go on to fight in the infantry.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
The Army Specialized Training Program recruits, among them Henry Kissinger and Kurt Vonnegut, were reassigned to infantry divisions bound for Germany.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Minogue is a 1989 graduate of West Point who served as an infantry platoon leader in Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 successful coalition invasion of Iraq to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantry
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The United States supported the anti-communist massacres, providing lists of senior communist party officials, equipment and money to the Indonesian army, according to official documents that were declassified in 2017.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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The deadliest assault on a school occurred in 2014 when Taliban gunmen killed 154 people, mostly children, at an army-run school in Peshawar.—
NPR,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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The most recent border flare-up came after five Thai soldiers were injured in a landmine explosion, with the incident prompting Thailand to downgrade diplomatic relations with its neighbor.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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In a statement, the Army said that Livelsberger had access to and used a program that provides physical, cognitive and medical care to soldiers.—
Tonya Simpson,
ABC News,
11 Nov. 2025
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She was assigned to the EVOLVE brand before she was let go in October as part of a revamp of the company's developmental ranks.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The move also helps Netflix compete with YouTube, which has risen in ranks as the most popular platform for podcasts.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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Japanese Imperial troops killed more than 200,000 unarmed men and civilians, and raped and tortured tens of thousands of women and girls, in what is known as the Nanjing Massacre – one of the most notorious wartime atrocities of the 20th century.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
12 Nov. 2025
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By 2022, nationalist rhetoric from Yameen and his Progressive Party coalition intensified into a demand for the expulsion of the Indian troops stationed in the country.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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The city of Charlotte settled a longstanding racial discrimination suit filed by a former fire department battalion chief last week — just days before announcing his wife would lead the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.—
Amber Gaudet,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Nov. 2025
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Petula says there are stories about a mythical cat that stalks the woods near the battlefields at night, and tales of entire battalions of Confederate soldier ghosts roaming the military park.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Infantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantry. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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