combatant
Example Sentences
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Crucially, Rove went on, Boritt helped them inhabit that history through the eyes of its combatants on both sides—young men, many of them still teenagers.
Warfare is a never-ending escalation, with combatants and potential combatants reacting to one another to gain an edge that is never as sustainable as hoped.
From Barron's
Whatever its actual length, there is no doubting the war’s traumatic impact upon France, where swaths of countryside were depopulated for decades, or the grievous toll upon combatants and civilians alike.
The attacks killed at least 26 people, according to Gaza health authorities, whose numbers don’t say how many were combatants.
First, it is believed to be the biggest loss of Cuban combatants at the hands of the US military since the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
