brigade
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"We are urging people to stay hydrated and use air conditioners," a fire brigade spokesman told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The fire brigade has advised people in the area to keep their windows and doors closed due to the significant amount of smoke produced by the fire.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Alfonzo won't receive this news from the engineering brigade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
His long military career began as a soldier in the Golani infantry brigade, making his way up to chief of staff, the top military post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
He showed Chamberlain the new brigade flag: triangular, white, with a blue border, a red Maltese Cross in the center.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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We were wearing matching unit hats: We served in different brigades within the same infantry division.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
As opportunities to flex their military might diminished, samurai instead became landed gentry, taking on bureaucratic roles as tax agents, heads of fire brigades and land managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
They must also hand over border checkpoints and an airport, while fighters are to be integrated into the army in four brigades.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Hundreds of young Ukrainians have enrolled on the 18-24 program since last year, joining various brigades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
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
When his own regiment was brigaded in France, it was called, par excellence, "the King's Regiment;" and Dominick Sheldon, "an Englishman," was gazetted its Colonel.
From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
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
Old John Butler followed; and is brigading malcontents in Canada.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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