reservist

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Recent Examples of reservist Canada’s military confirmed that Pavan was a reservist from July 2022 to October 2024. Mari Saito, USA Today, 20 May 2025 There is also growing outcry over the mounting death toll among Israeli soldiers in Gaza, as well as dissent from reservists unwilling to serve there and wider protests over the military operation. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 July 2025 Josh Friedman is an Air Force veteran, reservist and longtime bureau employee. Chloe Rogers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2025 The hardware will feature in the live-fire component of the Han Kuang exercise, which began Wednesday and will run for a record 10 days—double the usual length—with an additional 7,000 reservists called up to test their combat readiness. Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for reservist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reservist
Noun
  • That still leaves around 2,000 guardsmen and a number of Marines left in the city.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025
  • Trump, upon his return Tuesday night to the White House after traveling to Pittsburgh, did not respond to a shouted question from a reporter about his decision to pull the guardsmen from Los Angeles.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Amy Powell, the Paramount and Amazon veteran who joined Vice last May as president of the company’s studio division, intends to use the new financial resources on staffing, acquisitions and development.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
  • On the other side of the barn were a pack of mostly three-year State Fair showmanship veterans: 16-year-old Sara Braun, 14-year-old Emma Crave, 17-year-old Ava Gutzdorf and 18-year-old Mara Skalitzky.
    Liliana Fannin, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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
  • Elsewhere in the series, Joseph Plumb Martin, a 15-year-old militiaman from Connecticut, is a focal character.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • What: Complete elimination of Kurdish autonomy, with the SDF dissolved into individual conscripts.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • The bombs did not distinguish between evil magistrates and political prisoners, or the 18- to 20-year-old conscripts tasked with escorting them.
    Siamak Namazi, Time, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Soluble fiber binds with water in your gastrointestinal (GI) system and becomes a gel that slows digestion.
    Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 7 Aug. 2025
  • For many people with diabetes, the glycemic index (GI) is often used to estimate how a food might affect their blood sugar levels.
    Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) no longer requires new recruits to take a five-week Spanish-language training program, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The North is facing its own population woes and birth rate decline – and its technology lags far behind the South, which is now hoping to plug the shortfall in military recruits through innovation.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There is of course some truth to those who would emphasize the revolutionary nature of the minutemen and soldiers of George Washington's Continental Army.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • Eight colonial militiamen, also known as minutemen, were killed and others were wounded.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025

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“Reservist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reservist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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