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or carabinier
as in cavalryman
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Recent Examples of carabineer
A carabiner is the mountaineer's clip; a carabineer is a soldier wielding a carbine.
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Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 May 2008
Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 May 2008
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carabineer
Noun
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Was the unit’s survival due to the men’s indispensable service as Loyalist laborers and cavalrymen?—
Kinsey Gidick,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Dec. 2024
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These cavalrymen participated in the Third Battle of Winchester, a key victory for the Union.—
Jake Whitney,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2024
Noun
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An international networker par excellence, Zambello was staging Carmen at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, with Chen in the peripheral part of Zuniga, lieutenant of the dragoons.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
7 Dec. 2024
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The family, Louisville residents, also enjoyed some pizza and crab dragoons from the food trucks.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
8 Apr. 2024
Noun
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So, there is a sense that London is dangerous and that all the soldiers have just returned and brought their guns with them.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2025
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Carleton argues that Russell and Tolstoy’s focus on the plight of the individual soldier amid the horror and senselessness of war shaped the public perception of later quagmires, such as World War I and the Vietnam War.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The infantryman provided first aid to his comrades wounded in the Korean War attack and began helping move those men to safety.—
JOSH BOAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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Acting decisively, the infantryman administered first aid to wounded comrades and helped move them to safety.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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General Caine’s nickname embodied the kind of hell-raiser warrior straight out of central casting that Mr. Trump was looking for in his top general, officials said.—
Eric Schmitt,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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The sword, broken in two, might have been used by Vandal warriors and buried in a funeral ritual.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2025
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Many of his foot soldiers are young software engineers with no government experience who have parachuted into federal agencies seeking to overhaul or even dismantle them.—
Theodore Schleifer,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Musk, who typically posts between 50 and 100 tweets per day, is taking the bottom-up approach by letting foot soldiers supply suggestions that get seen — and acted on — by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).—
Neal Rothschild,
Axios,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The driver was spotted getting off the highway at Exit 32 in Southington where troopers were able to stop the vehicle, according to state police.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2025
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The collision happened 2 miles south from the small community of Walker, which is roughly 80 miles southwest from Climax Springs, troopers said.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Kansas City Star,
23 Feb. 2025
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The event kicked off with an opening dance, before the debutantes lined up for a waltz with their fathers, who were then passed onto their cavaliers for dancing with a live band.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
1 Dec. 2024
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Opal is described as a 5-pound red/brown cavapoo — a mix of a King Charles cavalier and a poodle.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 2024
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“Carabineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carabineer. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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