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Recent Examples of soldier Ground fighting and Pakistani airstrikes across the contested 2,600-kilometer (1,600-mile) frontier intensified after a Friday suicide attack near the border killed seven Pakistani soldiers and wounded 13, according to security officials. Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 Nearly 14,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the Pokrovsk area alone since late August, according to Ukraine’s military command. Tim Lister, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025 The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate. Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025 Legend has it, doughnuts were even fried in soldiers’ helmets. Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soldier
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Noun
  • The Leadership Challenge Smart leaders learn to love their warriors even when the skies are clear.
    Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The film centers on a hugely popular K-pop girl group named Huntr/x, the three members of which are also secret demon warriors.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said Europe needed a better solution than fighter jets to deter Russia.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Smashing Machine may not have been a box office knockout, but Dwayne Johnson‘s turn as UFC fighter Mark Kerr has a big admirer in Christopher Nolan.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Soldier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soldier. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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