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soldier

[sohl-jer] / ˈsoʊl dʒər /


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In an austere look at the price of lies, Ms. Hüller plays a 17th-century European woman who first poses as a male soldier and then claims the inheritance of a dead man.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth separately appeared to mock the physical appearance of a Canadian soldier on social media.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

We drove past an undeveloped beach—no facilities, just a handful of people taking a dip—and up to a viewpoint where there was a military outpost containing one soldier and his dog.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

Pro-government Serbian media "depict him as a loyal soldier who simply carried out his duties," Peled said.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

A murmur went through the crowd until the soldier blew his horn again.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Chaos erupted, sleeping soldiers were awakened and some ended up designated as dead, the Danish commander said with evident satisfaction.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

During the 1710 siege of Tallinn, for example, the disease killed Swedish and Russian soldiers as well as civilians.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, which found the killing of 13 civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland by British soldiers was "unjustified", took 12 years to complete and cost more than £190m.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The city's mayor Carlos Pinedo said Wednesday on Caracol Radio that at least 500 soldiers and 600 police officers had been deployed.

From Barron's

Even the soldiers seemed happy to share what little food they had.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

She could barely walk, but soldiered on with a smile for the photographers.

From BBC Feb. 2, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Dec. 31, 2025

In the hospital, I soldiered through the physical misery of a collapsed lung.

From Slate Dec. 26, 2025

"It was rough on morale, but we soldiered on. Besides, he won't die."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

We plodded down the narrow band, the trees soldiering up around us, dark and tall.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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