ˈwȯr-yər
as in soldier
a person engaged in military service
a program of tough training and discipline that turns untried civilians into warriors
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Recent Examples of warrior
In early 2012 several industry sources told Deadline that Disney was targeting a summer production start date and was in the process of finding an all-star cast of international martial arts sensations to play the team of warriors tasked with protecting the leading lady.
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Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
War movies turn a lot of us into armchair warriors.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The authoritarian manosphere is organized around a hierarchy topped by heroic male warriors.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
The Dan Bongino Show, Feb. 2, 2024 'The left is evil'
Throughout his media career, Bongino has portrayed himself as a fierce partisan warrior.
—Nick McMillan, NPR, 3 Mar. 2025
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Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
War movies turn a lot of us into armchair warriors.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The authoritarian manosphere is organized around a hierarchy topped by heroic male warriors.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
The Dan Bongino Show, Feb. 2, 2024 'The left is evil'
Throughout his media career, Bongino has portrayed himself as a fierce partisan warrior.
—Nick McMillan, NPR, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warrior
Noun
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Just outside our car, soldiers beat down the door of a house and piled in.—
Antón Barba-Kay,
The Atlantic,
26 Apr. 2025
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Three Indian army officials said that Pakistani soldiers used small arms to fire at an Indian position in Kashmir late Thursday.—
Time,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The two fought on competing networks (Stevenson only wanted to fight on Showtime; Kovalev was an HBO fighter), and no deal could ever be made.—
Josh Katzowitz,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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As public anger over the clip grew, fighters in armored vehicles amassed overnight outside Jaramana and began shelling the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group based in Britain.—
Euan Ward,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Warrior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warrior. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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