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But many of the militiamen identify themselves as PA officers.—Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025 International workers had been evacuated in the first days of the conflict, but the roads leading out of the city were now controlled by soldiers, militiamen, and bandits.—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 The president led 15,000 federalized militiamen from Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania into the west—though no rebel army materialized to oppose them.—Time, 2 July 2025 In the artwork, a militiaman cradles the dying revolutionary, holding out his hand to stop a British soldier from stabbing Warren with a bayonet.—Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for militiaman
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