brigade

A 50-person citizen fire brigade became famous during the Palisades fires, and now volunteers are applying by the hundreds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

Stupnikov is now facing off against the Russian brigade he left behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Danish mechanized infantry company role-played the enemy in this month’s exercise by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s brigade that has been deployed to protect Latvia from nearby Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Those closest to the fire jumped back as a spray of sparks rose up like demonic fireflies, but the bucket brigade pressed forward again as soon as the embers settled.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

"They're currently being tested in some brigades," said Trotsenko, who is awaiting a green light for further rollout by the General Staff.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

European Command aims to field four armored brigades during a crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

In other words, European rearmament will take time, and nobody even pretends that European troops are today fully prepared to replace American brigades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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

If brigades were tied up as occupiers, they could not be reassigned quickly.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

R. T. Gurdon, was brigaded with the 3rd Battalion. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

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

Much against his will and only as a result of extreme pressure, the American commander-in-chief agreed to a temporary continuance of the brigading of American troops with the British and the French.

From Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. by Charles Seymour