national guard

noun

Definition of national guardnext
as in standing army

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Recent Examples of national guard At least two military members also attend veteran funeral services, usually sent from either active duty, the national guard or the reserve, said Chadd Boland, a National Guard staff sergeant. — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026 The conflict escalated further, resulting in 25 national guard members being killed in separate attacks following the cartel leader’s killing. — Jordan Parker aviation, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026 The next day, Colmenarez joined the protestors again in the streets around the government’s election office, but were pushed back by national guard officers firing tear gas canisters. — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026 Our national guard members and permanent residents. — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for national guard
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  1. standing army
  2. militia
  3. battalion
  4. army
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  • The possibility of revising Article 9 of Japan’s constitution, which renounces war and prohibits a traditional standing army, is no longer taboo in Tokyo.
    — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Many Americans feared and distrusted the idea of a standing army into the first half of the nineteenth century.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2026
Definition of standing army
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  • Morad spearheads the kidnapping of Julie, who gives birth in a scene of gonzo fakery, with the militia men acting as obstetricians.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Sabti, who was born in Tehran, said the clerical regime in the capital Tehran does not exercise solid control over the provinces, which resembles parts of South America where some governments lost sovereignty to militias.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of militia
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  • The city plans to use the funds to add a battalion chief, demolish and reconstruct Fire Stations 33 and 37, build a training center and an additional fire station, purchase another ladder truck and two more ambulances and hire 36 more firefighters.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Soldiers from a separate task force rifle battalion of the National Police of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region carry a GARA UAV to a shelter in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 16, 2026.
    — Anastasiia Parafeniuk, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of battalion
Noun
  • Kyiv has accused Russian forces of mining nearby roads and using the remaining residents as human shields to prevent Ukraine’s army from conducting offensive operations in the town.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Will a YouTube viewer spend more than half an hour trying to figure out if Ukraine’s attacks on Russian data centers have decimated an army of propaganda bots?
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of army

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“National guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/national%20guard. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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