brigade
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The commander of Ukraine's scandal-hit "Anne of Kyiv" army brigade has been arrested as part of a murder probe, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The fire brigade has advised people in the area to keep their windows and doors closed due to the significant amount of smoke produced by the fire.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
His long military career began as a soldier in the Golani infantry brigade, making his way up to chief of staff, the top military post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Nearby, a US brigade deployed search dogs and activated a highly sensitive sensor to detect sounds.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The first blue brigade had stopped on the road below, by a red bam.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Under a system introduced last August, Ukrainian brigades are allocated “e-points” based on how many Russian soldiers and pieces of equipment they successfully hit, with drones providing video footage as proof of these engagements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
And on the opposite bank, giant murals pay tribute to Ukrainian brigades fighting at the front.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The Catalan government said three fire brigades and two medical teams attended the scene.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
We were wearing matching unit hats: We served in different brigades within the same infantry division.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
It Had been two days since Papa came home and four since Ivette left with the brigades.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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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
Much of the American man-power eventually was brigaded with the British and French and went through the British and French soldier-making mills.
From Our Army at the Front by Broun, Heywood
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
In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.
From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)
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