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soldier

[sohl-jer] / ˈsoʊl dʒər /


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A Russian soldier was checking: Was he friend or foe?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Every other soldier involved in planning the unit’s combat operations had been killed, wounded or moved to another part of the front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In a fiction built from these narratives, Guitarrica’s Sebastian is a soldier in 1937 tasked with keeping an eye on the captured Rodríguez Rapún.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Paramount's "Heart of the Beast," starring Brad Pitt as a former soldier and his loyal but traumatized combat dog as they survive in the Alaskan wilderness, finished in fourth place with $7.1 million.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Now Calvin, a former soldier, agreed to move into Leah’s and guard the women from any “evil spirits.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

"Yes, soldiers from the Home Guard found videos from the vehicles' sensors stored in their systems," Lieutenant Colonel Per Gunnar Grosberghaugen, Norwegian Home Guard spokesperson, confirmed to AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Even after discovering the leaks, the military continued to use the vehicles until the end of the exercise due to a lack of alternatives and the soldiers deleted the videos, DN reported.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The unit is ensuring Volodymyr, Grandpa as they call him, has enough to eat - drones drop off food parcels on their way to feed soldiers at the front.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

But after nearly three years of war, it had almost no volunteers or contract soldiers left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stumbling past us between two soldiers, hatless and coatless, came Pickwick.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Even during the depths of Covid, those Hot Pockets soldiered on.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Hulu may have wagered that “Killer of Killers” was too brutal for academy voters, but I kinda wish it had followed “KPop’s” lead and soldiered ahead with giving this streaming-only film a for-consideration theatrical release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, the artificial-intelligence boom soldiered on, with strong performance spreading well beyond members of the “Magnificent Seven.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

In the hospital, I soldiered through the physical misery of a collapsed lung.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

But he had soldiered on the job and the place was deserted.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

In the two months since the Strait of Hormuz was closed, many of the world’s major economies have been soldiering on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

That is not the case in the United States anymore, but our financial markets had been soldiering on anyway.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025

He’s a Samaritan scofflaw, soldiering on inside an almost entirely vacated neighborhood next door to the Getty Villa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

Dismissed for 149 or soldiering on for another milestone next year?

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024

“That’s better. It’s time to review your soldiering lessons.”

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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