gendarmerie

variants or gendarmery

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Recent Examples of gendarmerie The gendarmerie eventually became the Forces Armées d’Haiti or FADH. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025 French authorities have launched a massive emergency response, deploying 1,600 police and gendarmerie officers to assist the population and prevent looting. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024 Security measures are in place, with police, gendarmerie and army personnel patrolling the area. NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024 The gendarmerie, special forces, and other security forces were all here. Suzan Fraser, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gendarmerie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gendarmerie
Noun
  • When Jordan sealed its border in 2016 after an ISIS attack killed six Jordanian soldiers, most of the Syrian civilians were trapped — unable to move forward or go back through roads controlled by the Syrian regime or even move through a desert laid with land mines.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
  • American, British and other Allied soldiers were much more likely to improvise and continue fighting after officers went down.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Moscow is not about to waste vital resources in airpower, weaponry or soldiery on peripheral endeavors such as supporting Assad or the Mullahs.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • That includes the activism and the soldiery.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • Israel's military did not immediately comment on the incident.
    WAFAA SHURAFA, arkansasonline.com, 6 July 2025
  • During the Iran war, Ayatollah Khamenei instructed his military to target civilian neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities.
    Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The historical drama about Black military women who heroically solved a massive backlog of mail to servicemen during World War II is #2.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
  • These ex-servicemen would need food, sundries, smokes — hundreds of things, and thousands in pension dollars landed in their pockets, right?
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The amphitheater holding Christ’s holy militia looks like a gigantic rose.
    Mary Jo Bang July 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • Two months later, on June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress founded the Continental Army, replacing the militia with an official fighting force with Washington as its leader.
    Lisa Gutierrez July 3, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Although Pazzi is gone, the need for automation in food service continues to grow.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2025
  • Launched in 2013 and based in Los Angeles, Pluto TV is a streaming service owned by Paramount Studios with over 250 channels.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 6 July 2025

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“Gendarmerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gendarmerie. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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