Thesaurus results for MILITIA

militia

noun

as in battalion

a group of people who are not part of the armed forces of a country but are trained like soldiers Local militia were an important part of American forces during the Revolutionary War.

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Recent Examples on the Web Then, on September 17, the Israeli military began to mount a series of increasingly daring counterattacks against its most formidable neighboring adversary, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah—which opened a second front in the north a day after Hamas attacked in the south. —

Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 Millions of Arabs whose lives have been shattered by the militia want a different future. —

Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024 At the time the extremist group was a small militia, employing suicide bombs as its most powerful weapon. —

Ibrahim Al-Marashi / Made By History, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 That rapid decapitation of the militia’s leadership is the result of years of preparation. —

Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for militia

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