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brigade

[bri-gayd] / brɪˈgeɪd /


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A worst-case scenario would mean losing services "you depend upon: the policemen arriving, the fire brigade arriving, the hospital functioning, the transport giving you a ride from point A to B."

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

He served in the military’s Golani infantry brigade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

After his initial destination Syria was lost with the invasion of France, he instead made his way to British-controlled Palestine where he joined the newly-formed Polish brigade, the Carpathian Rifle Brigade alongside his father.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The hundreds gathered to see the departure of the brigade stood about gazing at the empty space they had occupied.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Sean said even with help from other brigades from all over the UK, they "still didn't have enough" firefighters.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

While Ukrainian troops aren’t training with his forces, they do work with the Latvian army and national-guard brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

It includes brigades belonging to Iran-backed groups reputed for acting unilaterally.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

In other words, European rearmament will take time, and nobody even pretends that European troops are today fully prepared to replace American brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

She really hadn’t responded to most of my letters, and Mama said Ivette had become the leader of the Jovenes Rebeldes group in addition to recruiting new kids for the brigades.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez

This is a useful corrective for people who are being brigaded by Twitter trolls: Would you still be worried if a crowd of folks in a town you’ll never visit was booing your name?

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

In many cases, it appeared that a post from one user would get shared by a friend into his or her network, where it would be brigaded by strangers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

He calls for civil servants outside London to "be brigaded into local growth teams".

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

While the idea of civil servants being "brigaded" to march in step to the localist tune is an entertaining notion, it will not liberate the power of local economies.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

And, sure enough, he had a string of a dozen or more brigaded in the street.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

What counts as sufficient coordination for a campaign to qualify as brigading?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021

Facebook said that such coordinated campaigns, known as brigading, are a new area that the company is starting to police.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

So apparently YouTube doesn't understand how brigading works or why impact matters more than intent.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2019

There are almost ceaseless allegations, on both sides, of harassment, brigading, astroturfing and sock puppetry: terms that describe coordinated, oppositional online campaigns, the feigned impression of grassroots support and fake online identities.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2016

Old John Butler followed; and is brigading malcontents in Canada.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers


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