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Recent Examples of commando
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Commando (1987) is about a strangely hilarious killing machine who dispatches dozens of less talented commandos to hell to rescue his daughter, played by sitcom star Alyssa Milano.
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John Devore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
In January, Yale Hillel hosted a talk by Naftali Bennett, a former Israeli army commando, defense minister and prime minister, who was once considered a protégé of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s current prime minister.
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Instead, hundreds of Russian commandos were slaughtered at Moshchun by a ragged mix of Ukrainian troops, policemen, national guardsmen and regular civilians, some of them armed with nothing more than hand grenades and hunting rifles.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
In a remarkable act of creation spurred on by the space race between America and the Soviet Union, science fiction television shows in the 1960s confidently came of age, emerging from campy low-budget offerings of space commandos amid cardboard sets and sparking rockets to more sophisticated fare.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
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John Devore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
In January, Yale Hillel hosted a talk by Naftali Bennett, a former Israeli army commando, defense minister and prime minister, who was once considered a protégé of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s current prime minister.
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Instead, hundreds of Russian commandos were slaughtered at Moshchun by a ragged mix of Ukrainian troops, policemen, national guardsmen and regular civilians, some of them armed with nothing more than hand grenades and hunting rifles.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
In a remarkable act of creation spurred on by the space race between America and the Soviet Union, science fiction television shows in the 1960s confidently came of age, emerging from campy low-budget offerings of space commandos amid cardboard sets and sparking rockets to more sophisticated fare.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commando
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Randy Haight – at the time a young patrol officer who was at the crime scene — met his partner at the hospital.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Some have expressed concerns that patrol officers would be taken out of the field to backfill certain desk jobs.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Remote raids will continue for both features permanently following their introduction, and in-person Max Battle raiders will now earn more Premier Balls and XP than before.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Gus Jaubert, a Frenchman who cooked for Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate raiders, supposedly fed hundreds at these events and became known as the father of Kentucky burgoo (his kettle pots are still on display at Buffalo Trace Distillery).—
Brian Bennett,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Occasionally, gang members would come rushing in and that’s when auto sentry guns would be useful.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2025
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One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos.—
Sofia Giannuzzi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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In his forties and with bad knees, Butcher was not cut out to be an infantryman.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Dmytro, a 35-year-old infantryman with a concussion, was evacuated to the 33rd Mechanized Brigade’s aid point one recent night.—
Olha Konovalova,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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This international folk horror co-production stars Odessa Young as Eva, a widow struggling to survive in a bleak 19th century fishing outpost in the Arctic.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
9 May 2025
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China currently maintains two overseas military outposts, one located in Djibouti near the Red Sea and another located in Cambodia on the South China Sea, which opened last month.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 May 2025
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That’s why many owners opt to hire Ryan West, a superyacht marine engineer who worked for Sir Richard Branson on both Necker and Moskito islands, overseeing renovations to the former and development of the latter from raw land into a world-famous resort.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Telegram account of the Defense Ministry’s publication Zvezda reported last week that Russian marines fighting in the Kursk region were using all-terrain motorcycles to evacuate civilians and wounded soldiers.—
Daria Tarasova Markina and Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
27 Apr. 2025
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From 1910 to 2001, the Liberty Crest Apartments were known as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison in Lorton, Virginia that housed inmates from Washington, D.C. It is more widely known as the site where many suffragists were held after the Silent Sentinels pickets at the White House in 1917.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2025
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More than 400 of the 600 unionized workers took part in the pickets at the distributor’s Hunts Point headquarters on E. 149th St. in the Bronx and at other facilities owned by the company on Metropolitan Ave.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2025
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More than 2,400 National Park Service employees have been laid off or taken buyouts ‒ roughly 10% of the rangers and other workers who keep national parks open to the more than 330 million people who visit them each year.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Some version of Power Rangers has been consistently on air since then, across five networks, spanning nearly 1,000 episodes, and featuring three dozen actors playing the core team of rangers.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Commando.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commando. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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