brigade
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County formalized a local brigade program — which has existed in various forms as guerrilla groups of good Samaritans for decades — in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
He appended his name, rank, location, and battalion and brigade names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
After his initial destination Syria was lost with the invasion of France, he instead made his way to British-controlled Palestine where he joined the newly-formed Polish brigade, the Carpathian Rifle Brigade alongside his father.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Chamberlain thought: Rice must be the new commander of the whole brigade.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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The government toughened prison sentences this month to up to 20 years, stepped up surveillance measures and increased the number of brigades deployed in a bid to tackle the issue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Abdi explained that the announcement followed "the completion of the process of integrating our forces into the brigades of the Syrian army".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hume said such situations should automatically trigger national resilience, when firefighters from brigades around the country are sent to assist.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Under a system introduced last August, Ukrainian brigades are allocated “e-points” based on how many Russian soldiers and pieces of equipment they successfully hit, with drones providing video footage as proof of these engagements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
There could be people in the streets: volunteers, gendarmes, fire brigades.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
He calls for civil servants outside London to "be brigaded into local growth teams".
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
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
K.C.B. This was the first occasion on which the corps had been brigaded since their formation.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
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
In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.
From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
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