brigade
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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
Alfonzo won't receive this news from the engineering brigade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
A Spanish brigade also arrived with a crane to begin removing rubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Instead, one recently retired British general expressed doubts it could even generate a 5,000-strong brigade for a conflict in Europe.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
“They fought well yesterday. Meredith’s brigade put up a fine fight. They will fight well again today.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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European Command aims to field four armored brigades during a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In other words, European rearmament will take time, and nobody even pretends that European troops are today fully prepared to replace American brigades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Tanshi and her community fire brigades have prevented serious wildfires from breaking out in and around the 24,700-acre Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary between 2022 and May 2025, according to the global Goldman Environmental Prize.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
We were wearing matching unit hats: We served in different brigades within the same infantry division.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
If brigades were tied up as occupiers, they could not be reassigned quickly.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
Our regiment was brigaded with the Twenty-eighth, Thirty-second, and Forty-first Illinois.
From "Shiloh" as Seen by a Private Soldier With Some Personal Reminiscences by Olney, Warren
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 Kipling, Rudyard
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