armies
Example Sentences
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All the while it is caught in the crossfire of opposing armies.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
The U.S.-brokered peace plan uses the carrot of United Nations exemptions to an international arms embargo on the two armies if they can cooperate and create a combined military command.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
This distinction mattered enormously to the founders, who were deeply suspicious of standing armies and associated them with tyranny and imperial overreach.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
Thoreau held a deep suspicion of government and all hierarchies, including armies and corporations.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
If someone were to reply that anyone who bears arms will act in this manner, mercenary or not, I would answer that armies have to be commanded either by a prince or by a republic.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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