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brigade

[bri-gayd] / brɪˈgeɪd /


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A worst-case scenario would mean losing services "you depend upon: the policemen arriving, the fire brigade arriving, the hospital functioning, the transport giving you a ride from point A to B."

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

He served in the military’s Golani infantry brigade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“We didn’t understand the scale of the issue and we didn’t realize the number of enemy personnel involved,” said Abbat, the call sign of the deputy brigade commander of Ukraine’s 13th Khartiia Brigade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

County formalized a local brigade program — which has existed in various forms as guerrilla groups of good Samaritans for decades — in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“One of die things you get to know,” Tom Chamberlain was saying, “is that this here brigade has got its own special bugle call. You ever hear tell of Dan Butterfield?”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

While Ukrainian troops aren’t training with his forces, they do work with the Latvian army and national-guard brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Abdi explained that the announcement followed "the completion of the process of integrating our forces into the brigades of the Syrian army".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Cordone said the implementation of the ceasefire agreement between the government and the SDF was moving forward, with four SDF brigades integrated into government forces receiving state salaries and 1,300 SDF-affiliated detainees released.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Voluntary brigades worked alongside those forced into compulsory service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

The fire brigades would arrive and everything would be alright.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

This is a useful corrective for people who are being brigaded by Twitter trolls: Would you still be worried if a crowd of folks in a town you’ll never visit was booing your name?

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

In many cases, it appeared that a post from one user would get shared by a friend into his or her network, where it would be brigaded by strangers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020

He calls for civil servants outside London to "be brigaded into local growth teams".

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

While the idea of civil servants being "brigaded" to march in step to the localist tune is an entertaining notion, it will not liberate the power of local economies.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

Great precision impracticable, but the necessity of a system maintained; System particularly essential where Game is scarce; Dogs to be brigaded, not to be employed as a pack.

From The Dog by Dinks

What counts as sufficient coordination for a campaign to qualify as brigading?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021

Facebook said that such coordinated campaigns, known as brigading, are a new area that the company is starting to police.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

So apparently YouTube doesn't understand how brigading works or why impact matters more than intent.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2019

There are almost ceaseless allegations, on both sides, of harassment, brigading, astroturfing and sock puppetry: terms that describe coordinated, oppositional online campaigns, the feigned impression of grassroots support and fake online identities.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2016

Old John Butler followed; and is brigading malcontents in Canada.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers


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