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Recent Examples of militiaman
In 2014, Bundy and his father, Cliven, marshaled about 1,000 militiamen and other supporters to repel government agents trying to impound their cattle in Bunkerville, Nevada.
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Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
In response to the U.S.’s moves in August, Maduro announced a plan to mobilize more than 4.5 million militiamen and provide them with weapons to defend Venezuela.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
In 2011, when the Syrian civil war started, Soleimani was instrumental in organizing Syrian defenses and marshaling an auxiliary force of approximately 70,000 militiamen that rescued President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward, and the other militiamen join in, firing repeatedly at the dead bodies.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
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Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
In response to the U.S.’s moves in August, Maduro announced a plan to mobilize more than 4.5 million militiamen and provide them with weapons to defend Venezuela.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
In 2011, when the Syrian civil war started, Soleimani was instrumental in organizing Syrian defenses and marshaling an auxiliary force of approximately 70,000 militiamen that rescued President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward, and the other militiamen join in, firing repeatedly at the dead bodies.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for militiaman
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It was taken inside the Lafitte Hotel on Bourbon Street, at the center of the French Quarter, after a guardsman used the bathroom on Sunday night.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The move comes after two West Virginia guardsmen were shot near the White House in November.—
Steven Beynon,
ABC News,
16 Jan. 2026
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Then, in late 2016, the Colombian government signed a historic peace deal with the Marxist revolutionary guerilla group FARC.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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It was initially applied to criminal cartels such as Bolivia’s Santa Cruz before being extended to ideological guerrilla movements such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC) and Peru’s Sendero Luminoso.—
Evandro Cruz Silva,
The Dial,
10 Feb. 2026
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In other words, if your body is working hard to break down a meal before bed, Sarkar points out that food and subsequent digestion can lead to gut motility (food moving through the GI tract) and insulin secretion—both of which can mess with your sleep.—
Julia Sullivan,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
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Steel-cut oats also have a low glycemic index (GI), which measures how quickly a food raises blood sugar.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
20 Feb. 2026
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The term paramilitary is commonly used in two ways.—
Erica De Bruin,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij paramilitary are the enforcers and protectors of the ruling regime in Tehran, not the regular national army, known in Iran as the Artesh.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Leaving the tavern, where minutemen had gathered hours earlier to wait for the British military, Revere heard the first gunshots of the American Revolution ring out.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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There is of course some truth to those who would emphasize the revolutionary nature of the minutemen and soldiers of George Washington's Continental Army.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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“Militiaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/militiaman. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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