foot soldier
Example Sentences
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Friend of AI: Iraklis Pappas, global head of AI at Colgate-Palmolive, is a foot soldier in an increasingly high-stakes battle taking place across American corporations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
"He was an enthusiastic foot soldier in that conspiracy," Erik Kenerson, a prosecutor, told the judge on Friday.
From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023
He added that he attended the conference as a "foot soldier and spear carrier of the Conservative Party, purely in a supportive role to remind the world of what we did in Glasgow".
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2022
On the Eastside streets of Los Angeles, Ana Castro is a political foot soldier of local acclaim, known as “La del Mopeador.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2022
He’d graduated from foot soldier and now had other people working for him.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
