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brigade

[bri-gayd] / brɪˈgeɪd /


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“We didn’t understand the scale of the issue and we didn’t realize the number of enemy personnel involved,” said Abbat, the call sign of the deputy brigade commander of Ukraine’s 13th Khartiia Brigade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

A 50-person citizen fire brigade became famous during the Palisades fires, and now volunteers are applying by the hundreds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Weeks later, in early July, Stupnikov was in the brigade command post when he got a message from Karpenko: “Come to the edge of Mykilske at an appointed time later this week,” it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

He’s got a brigade in position, that’s all.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

The rescue of Kostiantyn Vlasenko, a 49-year-old infantryman, from the front line near the city of Kupiansk involved four Ukrainian brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Sean said even with help from other brigades from all over the UK, they "still didn't have enough" firefighters.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

"They're currently being tested in some brigades," said Trotsenko, who is awaiting a green light for further rollout by the General Staff.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Voluntary brigades worked alongside those forced into compulsory service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

There were twenty-six horse-drawn floats, six golden chariots, ten marching bands, and six mounted brigades.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

This is a useful corrective for people who are being brigaded by Twitter trolls: Would you still be worried if a crowd of folks in a town you’ll never visit was booing your name?

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

In many cases, it appeared that a post from one user would get shared by a friend into his or her network, where it would be brigaded by strangers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

While the idea of civil servants being "brigaded" to march in step to the localist tune is an entertaining notion, it will not liberate the power of local economies.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

He calls for civil servants outside London to "be brigaded into local growth teams".

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

Church Parade at 8 a.m., when we brigaded with the Irish Brigade.

From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne

What counts as sufficient coordination for a campaign to qualify as brigading?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021

Facebook said that such coordinated campaigns, known as brigading, are a new area that the company is starting to police.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

So apparently YouTube doesn't understand how brigading works or why impact matters more than intent.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2019

There are almost ceaseless allegations, on both sides, of harassment, brigading, astroturfing and sock puppetry: terms that describe coordinated, oppositional online campaigns, the feigned impression of grassroots support and fake online identities.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2016

Much against his will and only as a result of extreme pressure, the American commander-in-chief agreed to a temporary continuance of the brigading of American troops with the British and the French.

From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Charles Seymour


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