army group

American  

noun

1. the largest operational formation of military land forces, normally comprising two or more armies or army corps under a designated commander.

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Example Sentences

In preparation for D-Day landings, an entirely fake army group was set up in the UK, equipped with dummy tanks and decoy aircraft.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

“Ukrainians have a core professional army group that has been fighting the Russians for years and years and years and received Western training until 2022,” said Stephen Biddle, a professor at Columbia University.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

By the end of July, his northern army group under Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb was only 60 miles from Leningrad, its objective.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2022

The video posted by a pro-democracy army group showed the soldiers kneeling with rifles in their hands on the steps at the mausoleum’s esplanade as a priest blessed them.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022

One German army group seemed completely surrounded to the northeast of Lodz.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan