brigade
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The fire brigade saved "not just our home but our business premises too", said Manu Goncalves, doling out portions of roast chicken alongside his neighbours' courgettes with his son Theo and niece Manon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
In an update on Friday evening, the fire brigade said the blaze was under control and there was no wider risk to the public.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
A Spanish brigade also arrived with a crane to begin removing rubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
In May, Hegseth abruptly canceled the nine-month rotation of an armored brigade to Poland from Fort Hood, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
He and his brigade of architects, draftsmen, engineers, and contractors had accomplished so much in an impossibly short time, but apparently not enough to overcome the damping effect of the fast-degrading economy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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It includes brigades belonging to Iran-backed groups reputed for acting unilaterally.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
Robert Tollast, land warfare expert at the Royal United Service Institute, told BBC Verify that some brigades were estimated to need up to 1,000 tonnes of fuel, food, ammunition and other key supplies every day.
From BBC ● May 30, 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
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
He calls for civil servants outside London to "be brigaded into local growth teams".
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
K.C.B. This was the first occasion on which the corps had been brigaded since their formation.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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
Sometime in the same month an order was issued from army headquarters, regularly brigading Morgan's command.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson
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