national guard

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Recent Examples of national guard Andrea Tsuchiya, a state national guard public affairs officer, said in a statement. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026 Invoking the law would give Trump the power to deploy military or national guard troops to suppress the demonstrations. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 15 Jan. 2026 Advertisement The Army Secretary position is often seen as unglamorous, overseeing the budget and management of the over one million Armymen, national guard, and reserve soldiers. Rebecca Schneid, Time, 25 Nov. 2025 The army has 63,000, the navy 25,500, the air force 11,500 and the national guard 23,000, according to the IISS. German Padinger, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for national guard
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Noun
  • Within days, President Abraham Lincoln called on states loyal to the Union to send troops to bolster a standing army of only 16,000 and put down the South's growing rebellion.
    Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
  • How a country founded in fear of a standing army came to think of its military as a bulwark of American democracy is the subject of my work.
    Kori Schake, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In one strike in Baghdad’s upscale Jadriya neighborhood, three Guard advisers were killed at a house used as their headquarters during a meeting, according to the second militia official.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Hezbollah, Hamas, and various militia networks in Iraq operate as extensions of Iranian influence, funded in part by these opaque energy revenues.
    Gaurav Srivastava, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Military under severe strain The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last month diverted a combat battalion from the northern border with Lebanon to the West Bank amid the wartime surge in settler violence.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The cat who died, from a different apartment, was retrieved by firefighters and reunited with its owners, the battalion chief said.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Garfield stars as the leader of the rebellion that pits an army of commoners against the Crown in a battle for equity and survival.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • As war burns across England, an army of commoners rises to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival, led by Garfield’s protagonist.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026

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“National guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/national%20guard. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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