servicemen

noun

plural of serviceman
as in soldiers
a person engaged in military service wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck

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Recent Examples of servicemen New data suggest that a quarter of American servicemen may have low testosterone. — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026 The video showed the man being accompanied by two FSB servicemen ​onto a plane, then in a cage in a Moscow court, which ordered him detained for nearly two months. — CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 Kelly gave the example that six years ago NIPSCO employed 230 linemen and now there are approximately 180, a 22% decrease, and gas servicemen are down from the 180 the company budgeted for just a few years ago to 143. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 The presidential decree, which was published Monday on Russia’s official legal information database, will put the size of Russia’s armed forces at 2,441,630, including 1,550,500 active servicemen. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026 About 167,000 servicemen have returned from Ukraine, presidential administration official Sergei Novikov said in December, although Russian media reports and experts say the number is probably higher. — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026 Its most prominent feature was the Rock, a small mountain honeycombed with thirty-four miles of tunnels that housed some sixteen thousand British servicemen as well as an American liaison office. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 It's cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and the lives of 18 servicemen. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 The wreckage of the plane and 10 of the servicemen were never found. — Hope McKenney, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servicemen
  1. soldiers
  2. warriors
Noun
  • The discovery raises the possibility of a grim outcome in the search for the four men, which has led to El Salvador deploying 450 special forces soldiers to Haiti as of Friday to aid the gang-fighting force in the search.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2026
  • In May 2024, The War Zone examined Chinese state television video showing soldiers taking cover from first-person-view (FPV) drones, using a net-catching projectile, and demonstrating a handheld jammer.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of soldiers
Noun
  • The research team intends to test other pits containing terracotta warriors and build a larger reference set of prints from ancient Chinese populations.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Govan drew upon a wide array of influences for Latif’s clothes, referencing Tuareg (particularly in the indigo color palette) and Baye Fall African warriors, as well as the more utilitarian aspects of Japanese samurai clothing.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of warriors

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