commando
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Baracus, an ex-Army commando fugitive, and as a professional wrestler with the World Wrestling Federation through the late 1980s, Mr. T is also known for his charitable contributions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Israeli air force special forces, trained to carry out commando operations in enemy territory, were also present on the base, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
"We later understood that there was a commando operation underway."
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
Now, nearly four decades after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s commando Dutch Schaefer survived his encounter with a Yautja – long before anyone knew that’s what they were called – “Predator: Badlands” makes one of them the hero.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2025
“Oh, really. You have new orders from the commando, I suppose.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The operation, which Akar said targeted the Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan regions of northern Iraq, also included commandoes who have “entered the region by infiltration from land”, he was cited as saying.
From Reuters ● Apr. 17, 2022
In a world run by women, these daughter-retrieving commandoes would be at home.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2022
Dozens of U.S. commandoes landed outside Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi’s Syrian hideout and warned people in nearby homes to stay inside, U.S. officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
"Six-hundred men - military; they had army, commandoes, Royal Air Force, bloodhounds, Anson planes - and they still failed to find the twins."
From BBC ● May 25, 2018
First, it was desirable to engage the enemy in the centre, and so save the Boer commandoes from falling in too great strength on Lord Methuen's line of communications.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke
Video taken after Jando’s arrest shows him being escorted in handcuffs by a squad of Mexican commandos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But as it crossed the Channel, commandos swooped.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
On 3 July, after flying from Israel via Kenya, elite commandos landed at Entebbe and launched the operation that lasted less than 90 minutes.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The line is like Nolan nudging his audience to say, check this out: a human pyramid of Greek commandos packed into a dark hollow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When everything was ready, thirty-four British commandos would fly in on gliders, land, and set out for the plant.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
