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Recent Examples of battalion
The rest of his tank battalion was killed in fighting, with their bodies taken to Gaza.
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Callum Sutherland, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
Her commander called her the best battalion officer in the brigade.
—Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
The future belongs to a smaller pool of elite innovators — not vast back-office battalions.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
As the group files safely past the battalion of Canada geese and closer to the Downtown Canal Walk at the southern part of Military Park, smooth jazz emanating from the Indiana State Museum’s entrance replaces the construction crew’s cacophony.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
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Callum Sutherland, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
Her commander called her the best battalion officer in the brigade.
—Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
The future belongs to a smaller pool of elite innovators — not vast back-office battalions.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
As the group files safely past the battalion of Canada geese and closer to the Downtown Canal Walk at the southern part of Military Park, smooth jazz emanating from the Indiana State Museum’s entrance replaces the construction crew’s cacophony.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battalion
army
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The British military historian John Keegan revealed the hazards of this kind of planning in his anatomy of the Schlieffen Plan, the German strategy for fighting a two-front continental war that was devised, in 1905, by the chief of the army’s general staff, Alfred von Schlieffen.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Feeding South Florida Feeding South Florida relies on the generosity of corporations, individual donors, an army of volunteers and, until recently, the federal government to put fresh produce and food staples on the table for the community’s most vulnerable populations.—
Mimi Whitefield,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Battalion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battalion. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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