combat
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The arrest comes as part of efforts to combat cross-border crime.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
After a near fatality, he is saved by Carlos, a farmer and former combat medic battling his own trauma from the Mexican-American War.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Jakarta promised last week to take "more serious steps to accelerate the development of a national electric vehicle ecosystem" to combat its "high level of energy consumption".
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
That way, if people were transferred or killed in combat, there were always competent airwomen ready to fly the open-cockpit Po-2s on their nightly harassment missions.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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