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Recent Examples of jarhead
Many training scenes Boots are intense: jarheads screaming, tough guys roasting each other.
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Nick Remsen, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2025
Mike Ferazzi lived to ride his motorcycle with his brothers, members of the Jarheads, a group of bikers comprised of, well, jarheads, Marines.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
When jarhead coders wrote their own version of Doom II, putting players in landscapes that resembled the Iraqi desert and other likely theaters of battle, Vaughn played it day and night.
—Steve Silberman, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2002
Nick Remsen, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2025
Mike Ferazzi lived to ride his motorcycle with his brothers, members of the Jarheads, a group of bikers comprised of, well, jarheads, Marines.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
When jarhead coders wrote their own version of Doom II, putting players in landscapes that resembled the Iraqi desert and other likely theaters of battle, Vaughn played it day and night.
—Steve Silberman, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2002
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jarhead
Noun
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Other charges accuse Yoon of manipulating the investigation into a marine’s drowning in 2023 and receiving free opinion surveys from an election broker in return for a political favor.—
Hyung-Jin Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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The spa is notable, too, with its treatments built around Biologique Recherche’s concentrated botanical and marine-based products.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Less than an hour from Palm Springs, the Joshua Tree Visitors Center near the west entrance stays busy as the main hub for info, water refilling, souvenirs, and ranger tours.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Jan. 2026
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The pic explores Aragorn’s adventures as a ranger, specifically his quest to capture Gollum between The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring, tracking him to keep the Ring’s location from Sauron.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Marine Corps said Rubio was trained as an infantry rifleman and was assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
8 Dec. 2025
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Rubio joined the Marine Corps in January, trained as an infantry rifleman and was assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
6 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Day in, day out, American planes, drones, and commando teams go out and hunt terrorists across several continents.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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That turns out to be a mistake, since a commando team soon storms his island with orders to kill him on sight.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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February has a larger update, Shrouded Sky, which introduces a new map condition, ARC threat, player project, raider deck, expedition window and a map update.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Nor did their eyes shed tears over the burning library that raiders furnished with the ashes of seven thousand books, which the novelist Mamdouh Azzam had collected over fifty years inside his house in Suwayda.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Erickson was an Army infantryman from May 2021 to November 2024, an Army spokesperson, Lt. Col. Ruth Castro, told NBC News.—
Greg Hanlon,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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Rubio, from the small town near Sacramento, was an infantryman assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division and had just joined the service in January.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
5 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Hessler served in the U.S. Army as a field artilleryman for six years, retiring as a staff sergeant before serving two years as a patrol officer for the Baltimore City Police, followed by a lateral transfer to Carroll in March of 2021.—
Thomas Goodwin Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Nov. 2024
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Tim Walz enlisted as an artilleryman in the Nebraska Army National Guard in 1981, the day after his 17th birthday.—
The Editors,
National Review,
8 Aug. 2024
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“Jarhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jarhead. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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