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Recent Examples of guardsman
The other guardsman, 24-year-old Staff Sgt.
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Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Nov. 2025
According to three officials briefed on the investigation, the suspect first fired at a guardsman standing only a few feet away, then shot at another who tried to take cover behind a bus stop shelter.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The names of the guardsmen have not yet been released, per the New York Times.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
By contrast with central Washington, residents of Ward 8 in the city's southeast - the area with the highest crime rate - said there was not a guardsman in sight.
—Tim Reid, Reuters, 24 Aug. 2025
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Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Nov. 2025
According to three officials briefed on the investigation, the suspect first fired at a guardsman standing only a few feet away, then shot at another who tried to take cover behind a bus stop shelter.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The names of the guardsmen have not yet been released, per the New York Times.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 26 Nov. 2025
By contrast with central Washington, residents of Ward 8 in the city's southeast - the area with the highest crime rate - said there was not a guardsman in sight.
—Tim Reid, Reuters, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardsman
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With 20,000 troops and tens of thousands of allied militiamen, Turkey has controlled significant swathes of territory across five northern Syrian provinces since 2016.—
Kamran Bokhari,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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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,
Time,
2 July 2025
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Perhaps they were rejected earlier under Ohio’s regular unemployment system and didn’t realize a new one is now available for lower-wage workers and people such as free-lancers who report income on IRS 1099 forms.—
Rich Exner,
cleveland,
4 June 2020
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The empire specializes in magic, the kingdom focuses on lancers, while the alliance touts the best archers.—
Gieson Cacho,
The Mercury News,
26 July 2019
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An outbreak on a luxury cruise ship departing from Miami has gotten 27 people sick with a gastrointestinal (GI) illness, the Centers for Disease Control said.—
Ana Maria Soler,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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This offering from Now contains 10 probiotic strains that have been identified and verified to naturally colonize the human GI tract.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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The nighttime steppe is an army of archers aiming their electric black arrows directly at you.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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The film’s narrative kicks into gear when the legendary sun-shooting archer vanishes during a mission to rescue the dying sun, prompting Chang Er to embark on a perilous journey to the moon’s dark side alongside an earthbound bandit who crash-lands into her world.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
12 Jan. 2026
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Now operating from the shadows in Colombia, Roper has been operating a massive arms-smuggling ring with the goal of rebuilding his empire and bankrolling a private guerrilla army to topple the local government.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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Other artists of this era sought to intervene, guerrilla style, in the apparatuses of advertising, in order to shake consumers from their hypnotic slumber.—
Michael Cowan,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Guardsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardsman. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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