legionary

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Recent Examples of legionary Their deployments lack the ideological zeal of the foreign legionaries who flocked to Ukraine in the early months of the war. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024 In the Thirties, the legionaries, as they were known, had launched pogroms that claimed hundreds of Jewish lives. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023 The teenage hero is among a few witnesses, including a Neanderthal cave man, a Roman legionary and the preteen daughter of a Princeton University professor, called before a tribunal representing three great galaxies. Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020 According to the Telegraph’s Mike Wright, the fort likely served as a satellite of Isca Dumnoniorum, a military fortification garrisoned by 5,500 legionaries tasked with pacifying the fiercely resisting local populations in the region. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2019 These legionaries would march 20 miles a day with 80 lbs. David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018 The modern-day version has firms sending out agents to collect debts dressed in a medley of outfits from monks to Roman legionaries. Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legionary
Noun
  • Decker is described by authorities as a skilled outdoorsman and former U.S. Army soldier.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
  • Adding to the Israeli public pressure to end the war is the large number of soldiers, 20, killed in Gaza in the past month alone.
    James Hider, NPR, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Mortal Kombat 2 will focus on the Mortal Kombat tournament, the big battle in which warriors from different realms face off against one another in a fight to the bloody finish.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • On screen, Charlize Theron kicks ass an immortal warrior.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 3 July 2025

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“Legionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legionary. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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