mercenary

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Recent Examples of mercenary Moscow provided air, weapon and artillery support to the regime, as well as mercenary fighters. Iran, long an ally and sponsor of Assad and Syria as a key node in its Axis of Resistance, stepped up its military presence to protect its client and secure weapons flows and influence. Ian Pannell, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024 Her motive in accepting the offer is not solely mercenary. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2024 Such a project could also include discrete channels aimed at different branches of the Russian system: the Federal Security Service and police, the army, and mercenary soldiers. Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024 The fourth season of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses concludes with a big ol’ reveal: Frank Harkness, the rogue intelligence operative our titular bargain-bin agents have been chasing the whole time, isn’t just the head of a mercenary cabal staffed with men he’s brainwashed since childhood. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mercenary 
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Adjective
  • Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.
    Dividend Channel, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have been increasingly eager to improve relations with the United States through the pro-Israel and Jewish communities.
    Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Airlines, especially, have been eager to point fingers at short staffing in control towers as a major cause of delays, especially during peak travel seasons.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Ever since the United States liberated Kuwait from the avaricious clutches of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War of 1990-91, the Kuwaitis have supported U.S. priorities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
    Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Stalin’s apprenticeship in high-stakes diplomacy had shown him to be cunning but also opportunistic, avaricious, obdurate.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
Adjective
  • The synergies that acquisitive CEOs routinely promise often fail to materialize, but in this instance there was never any realistic prospect for synergies.
    Martin Fridson, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But the dealer’s acquisitive focus often operated as a Midas touch, turning those around him into golden objects.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024

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“Mercenary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercenary. Accessed 1 Jan. 2025.

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