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soldier

[sohl-jer] / ˈsoʊl dʒər /


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The government has announced the identity of one dead soldier, squad leader Huynh Van Quen who fought in 1968 and whose remains were found in Le Thi Rieng Park, according to state media.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Paramount's "Heart of the Beast," starring Brad Pitt as a former soldier and his loyal but traumatized combat dog as they survive in the Alaskan wilderness, finished in fourth place with $7.1 million.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Yizhar Shai, a former minister and opposition politician whose youngest son Yaron, a soldier, was killed on 7 October, is part of that campaign.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

One soldier, who was reading Plato’s “Republic,” asked “what else did he write lately?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Two others were already in the back seat, a soldier and a woman with a gaunt gray face.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Army deployed airborne soldiers for the first time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Up to 1.2 million Vietnamese soldiers are estimated to have been killed between 1945 and 1975, during wars involving former colonial power France, and then the United States as well as its allies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The almost 400 interceptors that remain are augmented by a Greek army contingent with a Patriot missile battery and roughly 100 soldiers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

When black enlistment began in earnest in 1863, Shaw did not campaign to lead a unit of black soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

In the distance ahead of us, a couple of soldiers were marching across another bridge.

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

The third Test was a difficult night, but he soldiered on.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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

As the sensitive, flute-playing heir of the boorish, beer-swilling Frederick William I, the young prince had scant interest in soldiering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 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

“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

For Haley, who is soldiering along in South Carolina, it is still being decided.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 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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