FOOT SOLDIERS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

foot soldiers

noun

plural of foot soldier

as in laborers

a person who does very hard or dull work he's been a foot soldier for several environmental organizations over the years

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Recent Examples of foot soldiers Barton’s pseudo-scholarship furnished Christian nationalists with valuable ammunition, but the movement needed foot soldiers. — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 The result is child foot soldiers hired as hitmen, becoming both the perpetrators of crime and the victims of criminals. — ABC News, 12 June 2026 Traffickers recruit young people, including minors, to serve as foot soldiers in their bloody quest to control drug-trafficking routes across Mexico. — Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026 But, as academic mastery has become secondary to political consciousness, students are no longer being molded into informed citizens so much as into ideological foot soldiers. — Courtney Corbello, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026 Fans became zealous cultural foot soldiers, streaming, voting and building global communities on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. — Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026 His two foot soldiers now riddled with bullets had bombed the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson on a foggy night nine months earlier and were en route to bomb a Jewish leader’s home when police gunned them down. — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2026 Drone task force security model Haiti National Police Director Andre Jonas Vladimir Paraison said gang leaders are running and hiding while deploying their foot soldiers to the front lines. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026 Congress has become the president’s foot soldiers. — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025

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Noun

Lines spill down the block after prayer, with laborers and millionaires alike waiting to pair it with two-riyal fava beans from the fawal, or cafeteria, beside the bakery.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
Part of the promise of pro-worker AI is to create new tasks, which in many cases will demand that laborers learn new skills.

— Daron Acemoglu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of laborers

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City inspectors soon found site safety issues, including workers who were operating machinery without proper certification and an unpermitted supported scaffold in use, according to the Department of Buildings.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
The talent drain is only expected to intensify as older workers and managers age out of their present roles.

— Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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