special forces

NOUN

specially trained military troops

Synonyms

WEAK

Green Berets commandos elite troops guerrilla troops paratroops rangers rapid deployment force shock troops storm troops

Example Sentences

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Special Forces as they learned how to operate in the extreme cold.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was "not just one director that has known about this", he said in his evidence, adding that UK Special Forces leadership was "very much suppressing" the allegations.

From BBC

Special Forces operatives have worked with American videogame company Activision Blizzard as advisers on its phenomenally successful Call of Duty first-person shooter franchise, while the U.S. military has used such games to boost recruitment.

From The Wall Street Journal

The physical risk resulting from this leak to those members of UK Special Forces whose names were on the leaked dataset is judged to be minimal.

From BBC

He obtained the details after they were sent out from UK Special Forces headquarters in an accidental data breach in February 2022.

From BBC