corporal
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When Lai was eventually rotated out of the presidential-offices detail and risked losing access to lucrative intelligence, he recruited another sergeant and a corporal in his battalion to take over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Banning corporal punishment also had been a primary demand of student and teacher activists who took part in widespread Latino student walkouts from L.A. schools in 1968.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
The great-great grandfather served in the army throughout World War Two, having joined in 1939 and left as a corporal in 1946.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025
In later years, Buhari attributed his disciplinarian bent to spending his formative years at boarding school, where corporal punishment was the norm, and in the military.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing corporal
Body Language: Corp ("Body")
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