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Recent Examples of infantry
Barros said sustained drone strikes at operational depth can help set the conditions for Ukrainian infantry to retake ground, not by producing sudden breakthroughs, but by gradually exhausting Russian forces, disrupting rotations and weakening resupply.
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David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Military planners also want infantry units to engage armored threats from greater distances as rival forces field longer-range weapons and surveillance systems.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
The Russians are fighting an infantry-heavy war with no vehicles.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Ergonomics have also been improved, with the unit’s center of gravity better balanced to reduce eye and neck strain for infantry personnel who may need to wear the device for up to 10 hours a night.
—David Szondy
may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026
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David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Military planners also want infantry units to engage armored threats from greater distances as rival forces field longer-range weapons and surveillance systems.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
The Russians are fighting an infantry-heavy war with no vehicles.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Ergonomics have also been improved, with the unit’s center of gravity better balanced to reduce eye and neck strain for infantry personnel who may need to wear the device for up to 10 hours a night.
—David Szondy
may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantry
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After the warning, the Lebanese army deployed to the Christian district of Tyre in an effort to prevent Israeli attacks there and to show that Hezbollah has no armed presence in the area.—
Kareem Chehayeb,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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They were worn down mile by mile, cold by cold, delay by delay until the army that existed at the end bore no resemblance to the one that had set out.—
Darshak Sanghavi,
STAT,
3 June 2026
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Crow and Creepy, the call signs of two soldiers from the 24th Mechanized Brigade, have spent 344 and 334 days respectively, non-stop, in frontline dugouts.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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Ishikawa herself worked in one of the bars that served Black soldiers, at a time when most establishments were segregated.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
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Müller joins their ranks with these affectionate images.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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His victim, in her unassailable purity, resists him, thereby proving that the arrivistes populating the ranks of England’s most upwardly mobile class had a moral edge over the nobility.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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In the last few days, Israeli forces have extended their incursion deeper into southern Lebanon and ordered new evacuations, while Hezbollah has continued to fire drones and rockets towards Israel and inflicted casualties on Israeli troops inside Lebanon.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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Ambiguous ‘yellow line’ When the ceasefire went into effect, Israel withdrew troops to a buffer zone demarcated by a yellow line, giving it control of just over half the strip.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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The implosion occurred during a shift change, and the six workers whose bodies were found were in an area of the site where workers would go before their shift, Matt Amos, Longview fire battalion chief, said, per The Guardian.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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When an American battalion was trapped behind enemy lines in World War I, a pigeon delivered the coordinates that helped save the soldiers when no human messenger could.—
Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
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“Infantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantry. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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