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brigade

[bri-gayd] / brɪˈgeɪd /


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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

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

Devin rode back, asking for instructions as to where to place his brigade.

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

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

While Ukrainian troops aren’t training with his forces, they do work with the Latvian army and national-guard brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

Converting these “e-points” into money via the country’s Delta battlefield management network, brigades can then quickly purchase new systems directly from manufacturers, through a classified online marketplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

See, while I was working with the brigades in one of the mountain villages, I met this really cute soldier.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez

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

By the twelfth day of July, the Third became brigaded with the Ninth Michigan, the Eighth and Twenty-third Kentucky, forming the Twenty-third Brigade, under Col.

From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Flandrau

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 the hour of his Allies' need President Wilson had consented to the brigading of American with French and British troops, and to the employment of American divisions as supports for French and British generals.

From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard


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