Thesaurus results for MILITIAS

militia

noun

as in battalion

a group of people who are not part of the armed forces of a country but are trained like soldiers Local militia were an important part of American forces during the Revolutionary War.

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Recent Examples of militia The group captured the city and held it for two weeks in 2012, but withdrew after Rwanda came under intense international pressure to stop backing the militia. —

Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Among them are Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, and Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, anti-government militia. —

Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025 Led and carried out during the fall of 1857 primarily by a local militia made up of LDS members, with some support from Southern Paiute peoples, the mass murder resulted in the death of over 100 in what is now known as southern Utah. —

Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025 The foxes are a legacy of the 2006 war between Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Israel, when the animals moved down to the coast to escape fighting in the hills. —

Jane Arraf, NPR, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for militia

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Prior to his civil service career, from 1966 to 1969, Dr. Arendt was a soldier in the U.S. Army and served as a battalion mail clerk, a 4.2mm mortarman in Alaska and a military policeman in Colorado at Fort Carson's maximum-security stockade.

— Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Another battalion serviceman told CNN the North Koreans had shown good marksmanship when shooting down drones from about a 100-meter distance, suggesting a high level of training in North Korea.

— Victoria Butenko, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025