soldier
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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
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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
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“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
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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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