battalion
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And seven decades earlier, Hearts missed out on the 1915 championship, because 13 of its players abruptly left the team: They had enlisted in the Royal Scots battalion to go fight in the Great War.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“The bottom line is, if he says we’re leaving, you’re leaving,” the former battalion chief said of supervisors at the Lachman fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Shpuk joined the Ukrainian army as part of a volunteer battalion in 2014.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
The sight of the full battalion brings grins to every passerby.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
It shifted its hundred-foot-long body, flicking its dappled green tail and wiping out a battalion of ogres.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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