soldier
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"I wanted to serve my country and being a soldier meant I could do that at times of war. I wasn't a girly girl and it just seemed like a perfect fit for me."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Former Afghan soldier Haidary Hamedullah risked his life to cross the Channel hoping for a brighter future for his family in Britain, but just weeks later UK authorities expelled him back to France.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Four Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were also killed in the incident, the original cause of which is disputed.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
But Xenophon, up to that moment a common soldier, was chosen as corps commander.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
After her toilette, the proud Madame had gone to the common room and imperiously demanded of a lowly soldier that he go and procure buttered rolls and fresh coffee for her and the children.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
"In order to save human lives, to save soldiers, there must be robots," Trotsenko told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
That and other incidents have drawn attention to a controversial Thai government program that allows police and soldiers to buy subsidized firearms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Israeli authorities say 38 Israeli soldiers and four civilians have been killed on both sides of the border during the conflict.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
John Adams rose to prominence in 1770 by courageously defending British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
We must walk past so many armed soldiers.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
“Even during the depths of Covid, those Hot Pockets soldiered on.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
But I gamely soldiered back into the sunlight and onto the pathways that line the National Mall, each ginger step kicking up dust.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, the artificial-intelligence boom soldiered on, with strong performance spreading well beyond members of the “Magnificent Seven.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
Phone batteries ran down, TVs were on the blink and for many Spaniards their only lifeline to the outside world was from a car or battery-operated radio, as radio stations soldiered on through the blackout.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
The archaeological record shows that southern Yucatan was abandoned, while Maya cities in the northern part of the peninsula soldiered on or even grew.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
A lot of front-line soldiering has to do with individual will and attitude, not body chemistry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
That is not the case in the United States anymore, but our financial markets had been soldiering on anyway.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025
Dismissed for 149 or soldiering on for another milestone next year?
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
“She really taught us how to be strong,” Douglas said, “to hang in there and keep soldiering on to keep trying to see the good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024
He turned back with a handsome crested helmet in one hand, in the other an old shield coated with dust—a shield Laertes bore soldiering in his youth.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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