corporal
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Banning corporal punishment also had been a primary demand of student and teacher activists who took part in widespread Latino student walkouts from L.A. schools in 1968.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Alicia Blevins’s husband, Nathaniel, brings home $3,200 a month as a Marine corporal at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025
The great-great grandfather served in the army throughout World War Two, having joined in 1939 and left as a corporal in 1946.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025
The former special forces corporal sued three Australian newspapers over a series of articles alleging serious misconduct while he was deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012 as part of a US-led military coalition.
From BBC • May 15, 2025
A beefy lance corporal with a sledgehammer was smashing typewriters and mimeograph machines.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing corporal
Body Language: Corp ("Body")
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Julius Caesar
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"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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