as in military
of or relating to a group that is not an official army but that operates and is organized like an army
Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages. a paramilitary police force
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EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
One posted information about this, purportedly, and later on it got picked up by a neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe, the founder of which has been in the news for trying to buy land to start paramilitary training camps in Maine.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
Initial reports of escalating fighting began to surface on Sept, 12 following what eyewitnesses recount as a multidirectional attack on the city by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
—Emma Ogao, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
The latest escalation comes after Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Friday and decimated the leadership of the most powerful paramilitary force in the Middle East.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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There were the villains of Pouvoir du Vivant (Power of the Living), a paramilitary organization that is conducting super zombie experiments on the undead under the leadership of the cold and calculating Marion Genet (Anne Charrier).
—EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
One posted information about this, purportedly, and later on it got picked up by a neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe, the founder of which has been in the news for trying to buy land to start paramilitary training camps in Maine.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
Initial reports of escalating fighting began to surface on Sept, 12 following what eyewitnesses recount as a multidirectional attack on the city by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
—Emma Ogao, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
The latest escalation comes after Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Friday and decimated the leadership of the most powerful paramilitary force in the Middle East.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Paramilitary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paramilitary. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.
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