servicemen

plural of serviceman

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Recent Examples of servicemen The wreckage of the plane and 10 of the servicemen were never found. Hope McKenney, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 At least two British servicemen, the late Capt. Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 Rivers’ goal is to regenerate the psychic nerves of these shattered servicemen. The Know, Denver Post, 7 June 2026 Especially women, with all those drunken servicemen rolling through, packs of them, fights spilling out of the cafés, catcalls and spitting in the streets. Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 The film begins with soldiers lying dead on a seashore, near bloody waters — a reminder of the catastrophic rehearsal for D-Day called Exercise Tiger, which resulted in hundreds of deaths of American servicemen. ABC News, 27 May 2026 Her husband of 21 years is buried at the cemetery among more than 82,000 servicemen and women—many who served and never came home. Noel Brennan, CBS News, 25 May 2026 Later, servicemen returning from the South Pacific (and the musical of the same name) added to the nostalgic view. Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 Russian servicemen march on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on Saturday. Reuters, NBC news, 10 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servicemen
Noun
  • Two soldiers were also killed in an attack near the White House last year.
    Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Police, soldiers and volunteers have been combing through wreckage.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • While Homer followed warriors sailing home from Troy, the playwright Euripides — writing some three centuries later — turned to the city’s ruins and its women, forced into exile and enslavement.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In the beginning, Piker wanted to show young men that leftists could be fun — not just woke social-justice warriors and PC scolds.
    Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026

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“Servicemen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servicemen. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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