battalion
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A battalion typically operates four batteries, each carrying as many as 128 interceptors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
Grant Gilchrist survives the challenge of a battalion of second rows, but there are two seriously impressive operators to come off the bench.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
The sight of the full battalion brings grins to every passerby.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
The Times found that a battalion chief ordered firefighters to roll up their hoses and leave the burn area despite complaints by crews that the ground was still smoldering.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
They learned that there was nothing so loathsome as a wisp of blanket fluff hiding under a bed, concealing within its form a battalion, a whole division, of bacteria.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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