brigade
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In Chinatown, a librarian has assembled a brigade of teen volunteers to deliver fresh produce and other essential groceries to neighbors in need.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
This has been the case since the creation of the first modern fire brigade in the Netherlands in the 1670s.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
But as Downes and other members of the bald-capped brigade often learn, loyalty can come at a price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Someone must have a radio—the fire brigade, if one remains, or the resistance, or the Americans hurling missiles at the city.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Hume said such situations should automatically trigger national resilience, when firefighters from brigades around the country are sent to assist.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"They're currently being tested in some brigades," said Trotsenko, who is awaiting a green light for further rollout by the General Staff.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
European Command aims to field four armored brigades during a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Robert Tollast, land warfare expert at the Royal United Service Institute, told BBC Verify that some brigades were estimated to need up to 1,000 tonnes of fuel, food, ammunition and other key supplies every day.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
There could be people in the streets: volunteers, gendarmes, fire brigades.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
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
He calls for civil servants outside London to "be brigaded into local growth teams".
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
Had I time at this moment, I could not help devoting some minutes to an account of that strange and motley mass which then were brigaded as Imperial cavalry.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
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
Much against his will and only as a result of extreme pressure, the American commander-in-chief agreed to a temporary continuance of the brigading of American troops with the British and the French.
From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Charles Seymour
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