professional soldier
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Oleh is a professional soldier - noted by the tattoo across his left arm reading "pugnare cum gladio," Latin for "fight with a sword."
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022
Byun voluntarily joined as a non-commissioned officer to become a professional soldier.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
HAL 9000 had way more human inflection than this grim professional soldier.
From Time ● May 30, 2013
“General Schwarzkopf,” he wrote, “comes across as a strong professional soldier, a Patton with conscience.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2012
The professional soldier as distinguished from the feudal militia or the train-bands of the towns was odious to the later middle ages.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
