ˈwȯr-yər
as in soldier
a person engaged in military service
a program of tough training and discipline that turns untried civilians into warriors
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Recent Examples of warrior
Those involve besting a fellow warrior in battle.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
Hounsou is an immortal warrior from Africa, while Abela is MacLeod’s modern romantic interest.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Kai, who has always dreamt of being a warrior against her society’s wishes, discovers a deadly secret about her mother’s past.
—Brittany Johnson, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
Directed by Naohito Takahashi, the 25-episode run of Berserk takes on some of the manga’s most memorably chapters — from the introduction of its gruff, greatsword-swinging antihero Guts and his warrior comrades in the Band of the Hawk to their ultimate fate upon encountering a massive demon army.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
Hounsou is an immortal warrior from Africa, while Abela is MacLeod’s modern romantic interest.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Kai, who has always dreamt of being a warrior against her society’s wishes, discovers a deadly secret about her mother’s past.
—Brittany Johnson, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
Directed by Naohito Takahashi, the 25-episode run of Berserk takes on some of the manga’s most memorably chapters — from the introduction of its gruff, greatsword-swinging antihero Guts and his warrior comrades in the Band of the Hawk to their ultimate fate upon encountering a massive demon army.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warrior
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
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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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“Warrior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warrior. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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