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Recent Examples of national guard
Local police guarded the center along with members of Mexico's national guard.
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Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Trump’s also signed an order to send national guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee.
—The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
Trump pledged to repeal the Act and deploy the national guard as an occupying police force in Chicago.
—Rebecca Wallace, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
The deployment appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the administration’s mass deportation efforts.
—Olga R. Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Trump’s also signed an order to send national guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee.
—The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
Trump pledged to repeal the Act and deploy the national guard as an occupying police force in Chicago.
—Rebecca Wallace, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
The deployment appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the administration’s mass deportation efforts.
—Olga R. Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for national guard
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With Stalin’s large standing army smothering half of Europe, and his fledgling nuclear arsenal extending Moscow’s ambitions overseas, America had to scramble.—
Barry Scott Zellen,
Hartford Courant,
22 Jan. 2026
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The southeastern Choctaws alone possessed a military force ten times as large as the United States' standing army.—
Caleb Pomeroy,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2025
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Thug militias attacking citizens.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Jan. 2026
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On February 25, 1986, after four days of protests along Manila’s Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), the Marcoses jetted to exile in Hawaii, and the barangay militias disbanded.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Other jobs during Buckley’s 45-year career, his resume says, were working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is under DHS; the Virginia Department of Emergency Management; and nearly 35 years as battalion chief for the Fairfax County Fire Department in Virginia.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Times found that a battalion chief ordered firefighters to roll up their hoses and leave the burn area despite complaints by crews that the ground was still smoldering.—
Paul Pringle,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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Russia's advance in Ukraine has largely settled into a grinding war of attrition, and analysts say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no rush to find a settlement, despite his army's difficulties on the roughly 600-mile front line.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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Neither was there an army ready to defend Rapa Nui—crowds wielding spears and clubs were not uncommon in the Pacific—or any sign of violence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“National guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/national%20guard. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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