combatants
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The Congolese army official insisted that the paramilitaries were not combatants but provided no further details.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
"I fought enemy combatants while defending my country," he stressed.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The Supreme Court disagreed with Bush, declaring in a landmark decision that despite detainees’ designation as enemy combatants or incarceration at Guantánamo, they are not barred from seeking habeas.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Egypt thanked the president for calling off the strikes he had threatened just hours earlier and said it hoped the combatants would seize the opening to strike a deal to end the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
At his seat Bobby studied the stage from the audience’s perspective, seeing it as they must have seen it for two months, when they’d watched the combatants in profile.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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