troop
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Though Jason and his Argonauts get top billing in the 1963 B-movie classic, it’s Ray Harryhausen’s sword-wielding troop of the undead that steal the show.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
A Pentagon official declined to comment on troop deployments but said the department provides various options for the commander in chief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The troop withdrawal will formally end the international military campaign against IS, in which the Peshmerga fought alongside coalition troops to end the jihadist group's control of parts of Iraq and Syria.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
"When the troop reviews and opening ceremony are taken out of the schedule, the two leaders had less than two hours of direct meetings with each other," he added.
From Barron's
The next morning she said good-bye to the baboon troop.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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The last British and American troops have left Iraq after a military presence of more than a decade in the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Such troops are much less likely than regular soldiers to dismantle illegal outposts, experts say.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
It follows an agreement between the US and the Iraqi government, signed two years ago, to withdraw foreign troops by the end of this month.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Baghdad and Washington agreed in 2024 to wind down the coalition's mission, and its troops withdrew gradually from bases across the country, restricting their presence to the autonomous northern Kurdistan region.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
On the afternoon of April 22, 1915, following a heavy artillery bombardment, French Algerian troops noticed a strange grayish green cloud drifting toward them from the German lines.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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After some cheese and crackers and forced bonhomie, we all trooped back to our desks and then commuted home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Soon, their third-grade “reading buddies” trooped in from a classroom down the hall, and the group settled in to make some art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025
Eighty percent of 205 million registered voters across 17,000 islands and three time zones trooped to polling centres last 14 February, making it the world's largest single-day election.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024
Women vendors at a marketplace close to the bar chatted away as customers trooped in to buy vegetables for supper.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
For the most part she’d held up well—far better than I—and over the first two weeks she’d trooped along without complaint as we hit the obligatory tourist stops.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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"People are trooping to the Hakimpur border check-post since Tuesday after hearing that crossover to Bangladesh is possible from this outpost," senior state police official Subrata Saha told AFP at the site.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
People begin trooping in and it fills with 30 or so people.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
She figured she would get it done from the office, even though it meant trooping in on a Friday, a day most of her colleagues work from home.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
But before the coronavirus outbreak sealed its borders, North Korea’s state media reported on a steady stream of select foreign diplomats, academics, journalists and delegations trooping up to the capital, Pyongyang.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
Then we were trooping to the staff elevator.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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