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Just over two years ago, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte won in landslide electoral victories on a campaign battle cry of national unity.
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Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
High above them, Elphaba sounds her battle cry and flies off into the distance.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
With 46 games to play, that might as well be the Giants’ battle cry.
—Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024
The sentence on Cafe Kestrel’s menu is the battle cry of the heroic rabbit Bigwig, shouted in righteous rage at the leader of the enemy tribe of rabbits, at the acme of the story’s great climactic battle.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
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Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
High above them, Elphaba sounds her battle cry and flies off into the distance.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
With 46 games to play, that might as well be the Giants’ battle cry.
—Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024
The sentence on Cafe Kestrel’s menu is the battle cry of the heroic rabbit Bigwig, shouted in righteous rage at the leader of the enemy tribe of rabbits, at the acme of the story’s great climactic battle.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Battle cry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battle%20cry. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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