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[sohl-jer] / ˈsoʊl dʒər /


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“Is it possible to go farther in that direction?” he asked the soldier, motioning toward Ukrainian territory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

The former soldier added that he normally hikes up the mountain with clients 10 to 15 days a month.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The soldier glowers, mutters something in Japanese that Father Julien doesn’t understand, then takes the diary back and places it on a pile of confiscated materials.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

"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

But despite the diplomatic divisions, among the soldiers we met, morale is high.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

When Stupnikov visited Omsk with Liza after his graduation, Tatiana and her son spent hours on the phone with human-rights lawyers and nonprofit groups that helped Russian soldiers desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

There could be something useful in how the soldiers appear, she thinks.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

Phone batteries ran down, TVs were on the blink and for many Spaniards their only lifeline to the outside world was from a car or battery-operated radio, as radio stations soldiered on through the blackout.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025

Three-finger Tom knew about these things, as he’d soldiered under the old king nearly thirty years ago.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

As the sensitive, flute-playing heir of the boorish, beer-swilling Frederick William I, the young prince had scant interest in soldiering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 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

An accomplished journalist for a New Yorker-style publication with a specialty in culture and race, he’s a lapsed Muslim, unattached and mourning his late father but soldiering on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

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

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024

We plodded down the narrow band, the trees soldiering up around us, dark and tall.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys


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