pikeman

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Noun
  • And while the lone spearman's attack may have been futile at the time, the tactic has been since been vindicated by history.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Standing tall in individual cases are a kneeling archer, a standing archer, an armored warrior, a high-ranking officer and a young attendant.
    Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The archers were amazed at how strong the bow was for its size.
    Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps they were rejected earlier under Ohio’s regular unemployment system and didn’t realize a new one is now available for lower-wage workers and people such as free-lancers who report income on IRS 1099 forms.
    Rich Exner, cleveland, 4 June 2020
  • The empire specializes in magic, the kingdom focuses on lancers, while the alliance touts the best archers.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 26 July 2019
Noun
  • An federal judge in Oregon initially blocked the deployments but an appeals court on Oct. 20 ruled in Trump’s favor, lifting one of the orders preventing the president from calling up 200 Oregon guardsmen to Portland.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The request came as President Donald Trump deployed guardsmen to Washington, D.C., in August and made other attempts to send them to other cities.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then Aemon dies accidentally when a Myrish crossbowman shoots him by accident on Tarth, then Jaehaerys has to decide who becomes the new heir.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • With 20,000 troops and tens of thousands of allied militiamen, Turkey has controlled significant swathes of territory across five northern Syrian provinces since 2016.
    Kamran Bokhari, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The president led 15,000 federalized militiamen from Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania into the west—though no rebel army materialized to oppose them.
    Time, Time, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Dave Brubeck, already an accomplished jazz pianist, serving in a military band at a Riverside, California, base, was reassigned, trained, then shipped overseas as a replacement infantry rifleman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Those services can include playing taps and providing riflemen.
    Jordan Rusche, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hessler served in the U.S. Army as a field artilleryman for six years, retiring as a staff sergeant before serving two years as a patrol officer for the Baltimore City Police, followed by a lateral transfer to Carroll in March of 2021.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Tim Walz enlisted as an artilleryman in the Nebraska Army National Guard in 1981, the day after his 17th birthday.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024
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“Pikeman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pikeman. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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