brigade
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"We saw the fire but we thought the fire brigade had it under control," said Kevin.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"It's not an easy task," acknowledged Yaya Doumbia, first deputy mayor of Yopougon, Abidjan's biggest district and a hotspot for informal enterprise, where authorities have created a "sanitation brigade".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
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
He showed Chamberlain the new brigade flag: triangular, white, with a blue border, a red Maltese Cross in the center.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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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
Abdi explained that the announcement followed "the completion of the process of integrating our forces into the brigades of the Syrian army".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
It includes brigades belonging to Iran-backed groups reputed for acting unilaterally.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
European Command aims to field four armored brigades during a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
These are two very good brigades; you built them yourself.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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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
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
The 43d and 59th N.I., brigaded with them, emulated both in cool determination.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
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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