as in soldier
a person engaged in military service
a moving Memorial Day service honoring our fallen troopers
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Recent Examples of trooper
Kneeland allegedly refused to stop and troopers pursued the vehicle until losing sight of the vehicle and stopping the chase, officials said.
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Mark Osborne, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025
State troopers turned father and son away, saying Wallace had closed the school.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Wednesday, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers attempted to stop a car for a traffic violation near Frisco, the Frisco Police Department said in a statement.
—Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
The pursuit was quickly terminated after troopers lost sight of the vehicle, Texas DPS said.
—Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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Mark Osborne, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025
State troopers turned father and son away, saying Wallace had closed the school.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Wednesday, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers attempted to stop a car for a traffic violation near Frisco, the Frisco Police Department said in a statement.
—Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
The pursuit was quickly terminated after troopers lost sight of the vehicle, Texas DPS said.
—Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trooper
Noun
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Earlier this year, the Israeli military retrieved the body of another soldier who was killed in the 2014 war.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Just off the Gregory House, a trail leads to the Hammock Landing Battery, where Confederate soldiers guarded the river from attack, protecting their manufacturing hub in Columbus, Georgia.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Those involve besting a fellow warrior in battle.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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Dek is the weakest link in his warrior family, and the arrival of their father cements that fact; there is no sentimentality here as the elder predator orders Kwei to kill his brother and be done with him.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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Ever the fighter, Cuomo refused to drop out of the mayoral race after losing the primary, electing to run as a third party candidate in the hopes of rallying support from voters who saw Mamdani as too untested and too far left to govern effectively.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Trooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trooper. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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