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Recent Examples of infantryman
Decker was an Army infantryman from March 2013 to July 2021, according to FOX 13.
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Decker was an infantryman in the Army from March 2013 to July 2021, including a deployment in Afghanistan.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Leon was an infantryman in the Army from August 2013 to December 2016 and served in the Texas National Guard from December 2016 to May 2021, according to Surridge.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Country singer Scotty Hasting, a former Army infantryman who was wounded in Afghanistan, will be performing during the parade along with Nashville's Noah Hicks.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 14 June 2025
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Decker was an infantryman in the Army from March 2013 to July 2021, including a deployment in Afghanistan.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Leon was an infantryman in the Army from August 2013 to December 2016 and served in the Texas National Guard from December 2016 to May 2021, according to Surridge.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Country singer Scotty Hasting, a former Army infantryman who was wounded in Afghanistan, will be performing during the parade along with Nashville's Noah Hicks.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantryman
Noun
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Was the unit’s survival due to the men’s indispensable service as Loyalist laborers and cavalrymen?—
Kinsey Gidick,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Dec. 2024
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The novel begins in 1864 with a young man named Bird waking up from a bad dream to the sound of cannon fire and gunshots: Hundreds of U.S. Army cavalrymen are descending on his Cheyenne and Arapaho camp in what will eventually be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2024
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She’s rescued by a detachment of American doughboys, led by the aforementioned Pvt.—
Ben H. Winters,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
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In this massive operation, however, Allied commanders became uncertain of the location of the doughboys of the Lost Battalion, who soon fell under attack from both enemy German artillery, as well as friendly fire from the Americans.—
Alice George,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Nov. 2023
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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
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At the Battle of White Plains on October 28, 1776, General George Washington’s soldiers were forced to retreat following an attack from a small contingent of British dragoons.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 July 2025
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Burgoyne returned to duty as an aging dragoon captain, just in time to win fame at the cannon's mouth in the Seven Years' War, notably in Normandy and Brittany against the French, and on the Tagus River near Lisbon against the Spanish.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
13 June 2025
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Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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Like Obama in 2008, Mamdani has mobilized an army of foot soldiers, putting the social in social movement.—
Ben Adler,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Wrestlers are rewarded for greater effort, more force and louder grunts.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Zach Edwards, senior threat researcher at Silent Push, said the structure is a classic one, in which young people do most of the dangerous grunt work in a criminal organization.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
1 Jan. 2026
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Millions couldn’t escape the raiders on the continent.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Set two-hundred years after atomic armageddon, residents of Vault-Tec’s network of luxury fallout habitats begin to explore the radioactive territory outside their shelters and discover a nightmarish world of militant factions, irradiated creatures, vicious raiders, and feral monsters.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
16 Dec. 2025
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The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
1 Dec. 2025
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Carolina Herrera's granddaughter Carolina Lansing Carolina Lansing, the 21-year-old granddaughter of legendary fashion designer Carolina Herrera, also made her debut with her younger brother, Magnus Lansing, as her cavalier.—
Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Infantryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantryman. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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