brigade
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While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.
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
Weeks later, in early July, Stupnikov was in the brigade command post when he got a message from Karpenko: “Come to the edge of Mykilske at an appointed time later this week,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"We saw the fire but we thought the fire brigade had it under control," said Kevin.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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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The government toughened prison sentences this month to up to 20 years, stepped up surveillance measures and increased the number of brigades deployed in a bid to tackle the issue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Hume said such situations should automatically trigger national resilience, when firefighters from brigades around the country are sent to assist.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
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 don’t blame the brigades or the revolution.
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
The light batteries were brigaded with the infantry.
From From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force
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 the hour of his Allies' need President Wilson had consented to the brigading of American with French and British troops, and to the employment of American divisions as supports for French and British generals.
From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
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