NONMILITARY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

nonmilitary

adjective

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as in civilian

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Recent Examples of nonmilitary China has also increasingly sought to coerce Taiwan through nonmilitary means. —

Marvin Park, Foreign Affairs, 22 Oct. 2025 Kevin Henderson, a nonmilitary War Department employee, was scheduled for neck surgery in early November. —

Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025 Argentina reflects a worst-case scenario of how the military can absorb practices from nonmilitary agents that erode its professionalism. —

Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025 How did a nonmilitary crew capture and imprison a Xenomorph in the first place? —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonmilitary

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonmilitary

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The vote requests that the department’s all-civilian watchdog adopt new guidelines similar to San Francisco, which bars police officers from pulling people over for broken taillights and other minor equipment violations unless there is a safety threat.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States and abolishing ICE to ensure immigration and the struggle of migrants is treated as a civilian one, requiring support instead of brutality and criminalization.

— Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026