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brigade

[bri-geyd] / brɪˈgeɪd /


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The Ukrainian drone operators eliminated a U.S. armored brigade in the exercise, according to U.S. officials briefed on the exercise and one participant.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

In Chinatown, a librarian has assembled a brigade of teen volunteers to deliver fresh produce and other essential groceries to neighbors in need.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

This has been the case since the creation of the first modern fire brigade in the Netherlands in the 1670s.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Following their capture at the Bay of Pigs, Pepe San Román, Erneido Oliva, and more than eleven hundred members of the invading brigade were sentenced to thirty years of hard labor.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Abdi explained that the announcement followed "the completion of the process of integrating our forces into the brigades of the Syrian army".

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Converting these “e-points” into money via the country’s Delta battlefield management network, brigades can then quickly purchase new systems directly from manufacturers, through a classified online marketplace.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Several Ukrainian brigades said that they use the traditional sniper less.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 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

“You can trust my man, I think. I sent him into Gettysburg last uight. He said he saw two brigades of Union cavalry there.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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

I was a captain then in a Massachusetts regiment brigaded with other regiments for the work of the North Carolina coast defense, under command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.

From Why Lincoln Laughed by Russell Herman Conwell

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

In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.

From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward




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