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soldier

[sohl-jer] / ˈsoʊl dʒər /


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Upon examining the man’s papers, the British soldier “notices that the Wehrmacht stamp is smudged. Below it there appears to be a trace of a previously affixed rubber stamp.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

As for Holbrook, he portrays a painfully ordinary U.S. soldier — the kind who impetuously signed up in response to 9/11 — while pushing against reductive stereotypes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

To do it, Hansen forges forward with all the ardent conviction of an American soldier, clinging to the belief that his definition of good is the greater good, too.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

As a soldier assigned to help in the American Academy’s early days, Graham is there for its first session and hears the chairman ask his guests to put aside their wartime differences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

As a soldier, Washington had established a reputation for strict discipline among his troops.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

It has survived French revolutionaries who wanted to use it to cover a wagon and Nazi soldiers who tried to move it to Berlin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Friday that the city, which is far from the front line of fighting between soldiers, was in a "very dramatic situation" and should now be on a war footing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Our soldiers are praying a lot more than they used to.”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Although he acknowledged the US has greater military capacity, he said that "pound for pound" Canadian soldiers would be able to put up a fight.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Japanese soldiers enforce a strict seven p.m. curfew.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“Even during the depths of Covid, those Hot Pockets soldiered on.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

But I gamely soldiered back into the sunlight and onto the pathways that line the National Mall, each ginger step kicking up dust.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, the artificial-intelligence boom soldiered on, with strong performance spreading well beyond members of the “Magnificent Seven.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

The third Test was a difficult night, but he soldiered on.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

The archaeological record shows that southern Yucatan was abandoned, while Maya cities in the northern part of the peninsula soldiered on or even grew.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

As the sensitive, flute-playing heir of the boorish, beer-swilling Frederick William I, the young prince had scant interest in soldiering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

That is not the case in the United States anymore, but our financial markets had been soldiering on anyway.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025

He’s a Samaritan scofflaw, soldiering on inside an almost entirely vacated neighborhood next door to the Getty Villa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

Dismissed for 149 or soldiering on for another milestone next year?

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024

So we were put through every conceivable refinement of parade-ground soldiering till we often howled with rage.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque




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