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guerrilla

[guh-ril-uh] / gəˈrɪl ə /


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Museveni has kept his own views on the succession quiet, but as a former guerrilla army leader, many assume he favours his son.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Comedy duo Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol used guerrilla filmmaking and footage they shot in the mid-aughts to create a time-travel caper about their characters’ quest to play the ultimate gig.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Giaconda Belli, a writer and former guerrilla who left the Sandinista party in 1990 and now lives in exile, said she knows firsthand that removing an authoritarian leader is possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Seeing the former guerrilla, now in a suit, in Ankara, Trump said, "He's doing an unbelievable job in unifying Syria. What a job he's doing."

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

His company is about to deploy to the Philippines for guerrilla training before being sent on to Vietnam.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Okuda also once crossed a jungle to meet leftist guerrillas in the Philippines when he ran Toyota's local operations there in the early 1970s, Bloomberg News reported.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Since the coup, some of Myanmar's myriad ethnic minority factions have banded with pro-democracy guerrillas to fight the armed forces.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

That is 55% more than in 2000, when the U.S. began providing Colombia billions in equipment and training to roll back drug production and Marxist guerrillas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Believing he would replicate the triumph in Cuba, he went to Bolivia with a small group of would-be guerrillas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Mostly, though, the guerrillas are symbols of resistance, especially after Manila is declared an open city and the Americans no longer actively defend it.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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