veteran
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Mills is in a Democratic primary race against Iraq war veteran Graham Platner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
The campaign was led by Gregory Bovino, a veteran Border Patrol chief who normally presided over a remote stretch of sand and scrub deep in the state’s Imperial Valley.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026
Velasco, who is 38 but looks even younger, replaced Juan Ramón de la Fuente, 74, a veteran diplomat and academic who stepped down, he said, for health reasons.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
But as is made quite clear by the veteran engineers and scientists who have worked on or merely witnessed the U.S. exploration of the universe, it’s not the safest thing making space into a race.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
In 1864, Woodhull divorced her husband, who had abandoned her, and married Colonel James Blood, a wounded Civil War veteran.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Veterans Day Vocabulary
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