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combatant

noun as in fighter

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The enclave was left in ruins, and more than 69,000 people died, according to Palestinian health authorities, who don’t say how many were combatants.

Initial reprisals by the Israeli army two years later have led to nearly 70,000 deaths of civilians and combatants, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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Lafayette Square in the first term, the use of federal officers in Portland, the rhetoric of “enemy combatants” applied to citizens.

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Passed under the previous Conservative government, it notably gave immunity to combatants on both sides, prompting Dublin to take London to the European Court of Human Rights.

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About 2,000 people - combatants and civilians — were killed in July in another outbreak of sectarian violence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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