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veteran

[vet-er-uhn, ve-truhn] / ˈvɛt ər ən, ˈvɛ trən /




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Norman, a veteran conservative and member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, supports much of Trump's agenda but has occasionally defied Republican leaders and backed Nikki Haley rather than Trump in the 2024 presidential primary.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

In Massachusetts, Ford took on the case of Vincent Gunning, a Navy veteran and amputee who was being evicted from a home he inherited from his aunt when she died in 2008.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Nigeria's huge film industry, Nollywood, is in mourning after the death at 66 of veteran actor and star of Yoruba-language cinema Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said that even in training camp, the team’s veteran players were gasping at Miles’s plays.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

A veteran of old skirmishes, bearded, scarred across his cheek and the bone stoven and the one eye wandering.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Raising the level of decadence, the next year, Freeman had his first “show dinner” with Heyward and veterans such as Eric Hinske and Chipper Jones at a steakhouse in Seattle called El Gaucho.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

In Washington DC, he met military veterans and their families and visited America's main hospital for injured servicemen and women, Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Heart of Invictus followed wounded and injured military veterans preparing for the Games he founded, while Polo explored another of his passions.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

A committee will look for Chandrasekaran’s successor and is expected to consider veterans of the group’s more than two dozen listed companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Out on the city streets of Washington, DC, Vietnam veterans were arriving by car, bus, plane, and even on foot.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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