Thesaurus results for INFANTRY

infantry

noun

Definition of infantry

as in army

the part of an army that has soldiers who fight on foot He joined the infantry after leaving school. The infantry is coming.

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Recent Examples of infantry Upon returning from Korea, Wolfe deployed with the 101st Airborne Division to Vietnam, serving as a forward support element for infantry fighting on the front lines. — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2026 LaNeve, who is filling in as the Army’s top uniformed officer, recently ordered the battalion to refocus on its core mission of being an airborne infantry unit. — Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 An Army unit based in Europe was building its own drones before LaNeve directed it to end its efforts and return to being a traditional infantry battalion, officials said in August. — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 In his first enlistment in the infantry, Capers stormed a beach south of Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958, with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines. — Ethan Rocke, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for infantry

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His army of orcs are tracking down the rest of the titular rings, which are safe(ish) with the elves in the luxe strongholds of Lindon and Rivendell, as well as my beloved dwarves in the sonorous mines of Khazad-dûm.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2026
Some reports have suggested that Democrats are eying $15 billion in military aid to the Ukrainian army next year.

— Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of army

Noun

Given the global deployment of US troops and the frequency of its use of force, the fear was that the ICC would make US officials and soldiers vulnerable, and would reduce its freedom of military action.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 8 Nov. 2026
The Army officer who directly supervised Wes Moore in Afghanistan says the Maryland governor never led soldiers in combat and had no troops assigned to him.

— Drew Sullins, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of soldiers

Noun

For all the apocalyptic talk emerging from a midterm that relegated Republicans to their thinnest ranks on Capitol Hill in decades, there’s little agreement on how the party should move forward.

— Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
The disparities extend beyond hiring and are exacerbated at higher ranks.

— Aldrin Rafael Bonilla, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of ranks

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Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to pull its troops back from four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed in September 2022 but has never fully captured.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
However, Ukraine's figures come on the heels of Russian government data that was reportedly hacked from statistics department Rosstat indicating that as many as 450,000 Russian troops have been killed since the war started on February 24, 2022.

— Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of troops

Noun

By the end of their deployment, 25 Marines from the battalion were killed in action and more than 200 were wounded.

— Mya Copeland, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
The city plans to use the funds to add a battalion chief, demolish and reconstruct Fire Stations 33 and 37, build a training center and an additional fire station, purchase another ladder truck and two more ambulances and hire 36 more firefighters.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

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