brigade
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In an update on Friday evening, the fire brigade said the blaze was under control and there was no wider risk to the public.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Alfonzo won't receive this news from the engineering brigade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Antwerp fire brigade spokeswoman Marie de Clercq said it was a complex fire and the poor visibility and thick smoke in the building had made it difficult to put out.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Instead, in “Cancel Me If You Can,” he strenuously insists that he has been taken out of context by the no-fun brigade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
I said, ‘General Ewell, give me one brigade, and I will take that hill.’
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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European Command aims to field four armored brigades during a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In other words, European rearmament will take time, and nobody even pretends that European troops are today fully prepared to replace American brigades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
And on the opposite bank, giant murals pay tribute to Ukrainian brigades fighting at the front.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The Catalan government said three fire brigades and two medical teams attended the scene.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
It Had been two days since Papa came home and four since Ivette left with the brigades.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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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
Had I time at this moment, I could not help devoting some minutes to an account of that strange and motley mass which then were brigaded as Imperial cavalry.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James
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 poor we should be careful to make the best use of this knowledge by putting each as much as possible to the trade with which he was most familiar.
From Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" by Booth-Tucker, Commissioner
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