brigade
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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
While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
As he neared the edge of the village, Stupnikov heard a shout from one of the two-story homes on the street, which served as a brigade observation post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The brigade has now removed its cordon, and people are being allowed back into affected properties.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The hundreds gathered to see the departure of the brigade stood about gazing at the empty space they had occupied.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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
It includes brigades belonging to Iran-backed groups reputed for acting unilaterally.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
European Command aims to field four armored brigades during a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He sat watching the Rebs withdraw, then he said, “Move your brigades into town. That will make the good citizens happy. I’m going to go have a look.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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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
Those issued by the general officer commanding troops which are brigaded.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
In the hour of his Allies' need President Wilson had consented to the brigading of American with French and British troops, and to the employment of American divisions as supports for French and British generals.
From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
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