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Recent Examples of nonmilitary
China has also increasingly sought to coerce Taiwan through nonmilitary means.
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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
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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 two armies remain locked in battle on the roughly 750-mile front line, while Russia bombards civilian areas of Ukraine daily.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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The images, captured by civilian plane spotters who upload them to social media, indicate that in addition to the logistics aircraft revealed by tracking data, American strike power has also been moving into the region.—
Joanne Stocker,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Israel's Foreign Ministry said Palestinian Authority civil planning maps show that the authority has been advancing land registration procedures in Area C for years in violation of agreements that give Israel civil and military control over the area.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Feb. 2026
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At least nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the northern and southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian civil defence and health officials said, in what Israel's military called a response to Hamas ceasefire violations.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Nonmilitary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonmilitary. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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