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Solovyov expressed outrage over his brief stint with the battalion, suggesting this tarnished its reputation.
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Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Set in 1987, Predator starts with Schwarzenegger's Dutch taking out guerrillas in the Central American jungle with his beefy battalion of soldiers — played by Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, and future director of The Predator, Shane Black.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Yet what this film really nails is the battalion camaraderie that goes beyond spending hours, days, weeks with the same folks and flips into something else entirely once shots are fired.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Dudayev also asked Solovyov to clarify whether his criticism was directed at Chechen representatives or the Akhmat battalion.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
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Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Set in 1987, Predator starts with Schwarzenegger's Dutch taking out guerrillas in the Central American jungle with his beefy battalion of soldiers — played by Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, and future director of The Predator, Shane Black.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Yet what this film really nails is the battalion camaraderie that goes beyond spending hours, days, weeks with the same folks and flips into something else entirely once shots are fired.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Dudayev also asked Solovyov to clarify whether his criticism was directed at Chechen representatives or the Akhmat battalion.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battalion
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For several weeks, fighting has intensified between the army and the RSF as government troops push to reclaim territories occupied by the militia.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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But even Russia’s huge army cannot survive this sort of attrition indefinitely, and Birds of Magyar’s numbers show just how well Ukraine can fight even without foreign weapons. Follow me on Twitter.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Battalion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battalion. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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