brigade
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While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
A 50-person citizen fire brigade became famous during the Palisades fires, and now volunteers are applying by the hundreds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
He appended his name, rank, location, and battalion and brigade names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The brigade has now removed its cordon, and people are being allowed back into affected properties.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Armistead turned away, walked back to his brigade.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Sean said even with help from other brigades from all over the UK, they "still didn't have enough" firefighters.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
"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
Converting these “e-points” into money via the country’s Delta battlefield management network, brigades can then quickly purchase new systems directly from manufacturers, through a classified online marketplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
General Pershing offered all his available forces to General Foch when the storm of the German offensive broke, and many American units were at once brigaded with British and French forces.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 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
Well, I had a delicacy about brigading myself with a colonel at the head of his regiment, so I stayed with the rear company and the horses.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling
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