soldier
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Paramount's "Heart of the Beast," starring Brad Pitt as a former soldier and his loyal but traumatized combat dog as they survive in the Alaskan wilderness, finished in fourth place with $7.1 million.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Washington Post team was honoured for telling the story of a Ukrainian soldier trapped in a combat zone for 177 days.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
One soldier who read Plato’s “Republic” asked: “What else did he write lately?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
One soldier, who was reading Plato’s “Republic,” asked “what else did he write lately?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Now that I report to the Colonel, am I considered a soldier of sorts?
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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At one checkpoint, National Guard soldiers opened the trailer and, seeing a wall of hay bales, let it pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
All over Nebraska, however, the industry soldiers on.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In a post on X, the Florida National Guard shared pictures of a truck stuck in a flood ditch, saying soldiers "stopped, swam to the vehicle and pulled its occupants to safety".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Ukrainian soldiers can get a drone of about the same size off the ground in under a minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
A group of Nazi soldiers came out of a side street, heading straight towards us!
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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“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
With her head held high, the Latin Grammy-winning Mexican singer-songwriter soldiered through an extended period of grief to write “Vendrán Suaves Lluvias,” including a harrowing heartbreak and the shocking murder of a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
Despite their protests, all the other churches did the same with the exception of the Roman Catholics, the Seventh-Day Adventists, and the United Jewish Reform Congregation — who soldiered on without state aid.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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
And Snoeijs admits athletes are particularly prone to soldiering on.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 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
“She really taught us how to be strong,” Douglas said, “to hang in there and keep soldiering on to keep trying to see the good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024
His wooden leg was at once a certificate of proof of his soldiering and a guarantee that he wouldn’t ever have to do it again.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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