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noun

variants or guerilla
Definition of guerrillanext
as in soldier
a member of a usually small group of soldiers who do not belong to a regular army and who fight in a war as an independent unit The guerrillas controlled half the country.

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adjective

as in warlike

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Noun
The singer and the songwriter traversed the frontlines of the urban guerrilla war that had consumed the city of Homs by that point, with one half of the city overtaken by regime soldiers and the other half controlled by rebel groups. — Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025 The Polisario’s guerrilla war against the Moroccan occupation clocked some impressive victories until 1991, when the two parties signed a cease-fire pegged to the pledge of a referendum on self-determination. — Hannah Rae Armstrong, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
That was the year that social media really started to take off, which gave restaurants and bars this megaphone to kind of guerrilla market on their own. — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019 Paolo Luers, a journalist and former guerrilla press officer who became part of Mijango’s team, told me. — Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 See All Example Sentences for guerrilla
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guerrilla
  1. soldier
  2. warlike
  3. partisan
  4. military
  5. marine
  6. combative
  7. aggressive
  8. bellicose
Noun
  • Facilitating mankind’s victory has been an invention that allows flesh-and-blood soldiers to control mechanized drone bodies with half their minds while the other halves enjoy, say, margaritas on a digital beach.
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The palace appeared to be in ruins, with soldiers stepping on broken tiles.
    — Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of soldier
Adjective
  • Freyja, however, is a more warlike goddess, and even has a part in selecting warriors for her hall in the afterlife.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Some characters die violently in a warlike atmosphere, and the remaining ones struggle with their losses.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Definition of warlike
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  • These partisans, of course, will oppose commutation – but Polis still should grant it.
    — Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
  • While partisans have made up their minds about Trump, independents may be taking a wait-and-see attitude.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2025
Definition of partisan
Adjective
  • Now, an expert in military manpower at RAND wants to see the services shift their focus from quantity to quality.
    — Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
  • This fight seems very much like a trial balloon, seizing on areas of law like immigration and military powers where the executive has particularly acute authority, and playing on the emotional narrative that this is about targeting bloodthirsty criminals, even if that narrative is false.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of military
Noun
  • Guardian is the military's term for a member of the Space Force, comparable to airmen, sailors, soldiers, and marines.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In early 1968, for instance, North Vietnamese troops besieged U.S. marines at Khe Sanh in an important battle of the Vietnam War.
    — Paul Avey, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of marine
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump’s agenda is taking a combative, rocky path through the judicial branch.
    — Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Driving the news: Vance has won over Trump's base with combative public performances, by savvily managing relationships with Trump's team, and by showing unwavering fealty to Trump's vision.
    — Marc Caputo, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of combative
Adjective
  • Though McBride — who has been subject to many aggressive comments from House Republicans since joining Congress in January — attempted to move on with the hearing, Massachusetts Rep. William Keating refused to let Self's disrespectful comment slide.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Davis is an aggressive man corner that is capable of shutting down receivers one-on-one.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of aggressive
Adjective
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States and South Korea of increasing tensions with their joint drills and Pyongyang often responds with bellicose threats.
    — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s revival of some of that bellicose language especially inflames nerves in Panama, said political scientist Miguel Antonio Bernal.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of bellicose

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