brigade
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Lord Roe's acting chief executive at the BSR is Charlie Pugsley, who was also his deputy commissioner at the brigade.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
But as Downes and other members of the bald-capped brigade often learn, loyalty can come at a price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"They include service members and the former commander of the 155th brigade," he said in a social media statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Alfonzo won't receive this news from the engineering brigade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Their big yellow eyes surveyed the fire brigade, squinting and widening again.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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Voluntary brigades worked alongside those forced into compulsory service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The Catalan government said three fire brigades and two medical teams attended the scene.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
We were wearing matching unit hats: We served in different brigades within the same infantry division.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
As opportunities to flex their military might diminished, samurai instead became landed gentry, taking on bureaucratic roles as tax agents, heads of fire brigades and land managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
To save time, he ordered the brigades to double the line of march.
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
When brigaded, my recollection is, that it was at least one hundred and fifty men short of the number of any other regiment.
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus
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
You can't manufacture an army by brigading regiments—by creating divisions and forming army corps.
From Ailsa Paige by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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