brigade
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County formalized a local brigade program — which has existed in various forms as guerrilla groups of good Samaritans for decades — in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
A 50-person citizen fire brigade became famous during the Palisades fires, and now volunteers are applying by the hundreds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
He appended his name, rank, location, and battalion and brigade names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Stupnikov is now facing off against the Russian brigade he left behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Still, without planning or discussion, as more and more neighbors arrived, a bucket brigade had begun.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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Sean said even with help from other brigades from all over the UK, they "still didn't have enough" firefighters.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
"They're currently being tested in some brigades," said Trotsenko, who is awaiting a green light for further rollout by the General Staff.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Under a system introduced last August, Ukrainian brigades are allocated “e-points” based on how many Russian soldiers and pieces of equipment they successfully hit, with drones providing video footage as proof of these engagements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Voluntary brigades worked alongside those forced into compulsory service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Buford did not know how long his two brigades could hold.
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
I was brigaded with Arentschild's Hanoverians in Spain; and they used to sit outside the tents every evening, and sing.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
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
Sometime in the same month an order was issued from army headquarters, regularly brigading Morgan's command.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke
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