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national guard

noun

Definition of national guard

as in standing army

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Recent Examples of national guard At least two military members also attend veteran funeral services, usually sent from either active duty, the national guard or the reserve, said Chadd Boland, a National Guard staff sergeant. — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026 The conflict escalated further, resulting in 25 national guard members being killed in separate attacks following the cartel leader’s killing. — Jordan Parker aviation, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026 The next day, Colmenarez joined the protestors again in the streets around the government’s election office, but were pushed back by national guard officers firing tear gas canisters. — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026 Our national guard members and permanent residents. — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for national guard

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Noun

The possibility of revising Article 9 of Japan’s constitution, which renounces war and prohibits a traditional standing army, is no longer taboo in Tokyo.

— David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
Many Americans feared and distrusted the idea of a standing army into the first half of the nineteenth century.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2026

Definition of standing army

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Government troops last month clashed near Baidoa with militias loyal to former regional President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen, who resigned after federal forces seized the city in March.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Now, however, more than half of its annual production is smuggled out by traders, generals, and militia leaders, according to United Nations experts and other analysts.

— Mat Nashed, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of militia

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By the end of their deployment, 25 Marines from the battalion were killed in action and more than 200 were wounded.

— Mya Copeland, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
The city plans to use the funds to add a battalion chief, demolish and reconstruct Fire Stations 33 and 37, build a training center and an additional fire station, purchase another ladder truck and two more ambulances and hire 36 more firefighters.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of battalion

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Not that that will stop culture-war gnats from claiming that an army of boys with bad intentions are trying to game the system.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
The French War Crimes Unit has opened a judicial investigation into the Israeli army’s bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024 in which seven civilians were killed, including the parents of Franco-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2026

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