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rear guard

noun

Definition of rear guard

as in firing squad

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Recent Examples of rear guard Optional extras include alarm/geolocation, a retractable rear guard rail, a canopy, and custom setups for family or cargo. — New Atlas, 6 July 2026 Any suggestions that Lionel Messi’s presence at the 2026 World Cup might be diminished crumbled on Tuesday night with Algeria’s rear guard. — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026 The north was expected to be America’s rear guard, a place where values like democracy and women’s rights might have taken hold. — Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024 And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard. — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024 General Fran Sigel was assigned as rear guard for forces moving through town. — Randy McCrory, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023 By the 1990s, NHTSA had finally adopted a regulation requiring tougher rear guards. — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023 The capelin rear guard, sensing danger, rose off the bottom in a great fleeing cloud. — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Indeed, Dnipropetrovsk has been a key rear guard for the Ukrainian military and National Guard. — Taras Kuzio, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2015

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Noun

Out of public sight The planned execution by firing squad is of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 in 2009.

— Nate Perez, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Eight days later, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gleefully invited the nation to tune in, via live stream, for the death by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, scheduled for December 3rd.

— Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of firing squad

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An earlier version of this story included an incorrect name and gender for the victim in the crash, based on information from the highway patrol.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
Missouri state troopers have captured an escaped convict who broke free from a Tennessee prison last week, a highway patrol spokesperson told Fox News Digital Tuesday.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

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This lavish hotspot with multiple locations in Los Angeles as well as outposts in Austin and Las Vegas, is a modern steakhouse with a bit of flair.

— Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2026
On Election Day, as the results started coming in, Rashid Johnson opened a show of new work at Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery, which has recently become my favorite of the mega-gallery’s dozen or so global outposts.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of outpost

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Supporters gather at watch parties At Rodriguez’ watch party, the crowded room was full of union members from Unite Here Local 355.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026
Instead of staging a watch party Tuesday night, Elleson and his wife, Sue, visited seriously ill people in Chicago-area hospitals.

— Russell Lissau, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of watch

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Transport workers had been slated to join the pickets too, but abandoned plans after Transport Minister Matteo Salvini threatened the sector with sanctions.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
In the union’s founding days, Huerta helped recruit a 19-year-old grape picker named Eliseo Medina to perform a one-man picket at the Port of Los Angeles — supposedly to stop the loading of a shipment of non-union grapes.

— James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of picket

Noun

Some of them have panoramic views of white windmills, which dot the coastline of the Taiwan Strait like slender sentries.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
And Ric Salinas, who plays Chachalacani, humorously obliges, bringing his Culture Clash vaudeville skills to the role of the sentry who’s caught between the rock of Klion’s tyranny and his fellow feeling for Antíkona’s sympathetic cause.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of sentry

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