militiaman
Americannoun
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militiamen
plural
noun
Gender
See -man.
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Last month, said Nizar Dughmush, the head of a prominent tribe in Gaza City, he was contacted by a militiaman who claimed he was an intermediary from the Israeli military.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
The United States on Friday complied with a federal court order and released a former Afghan militiaman from detention in Guantánamo Bay, in a case that reflects the changing political realities of Afghanistan.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Another video captured a militiaman recounting a purported conversation with police.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021
Eventually he subbed out the grinning selfie in his Twitter profile, replacing it with the image of a colonial militiaman shouldering an AR-15 rifle.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
Laila saw a look pass between Wakil and the militiaman.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Later he tried to build civil society in war-torn Iraq and Libya and was briefly kidnapped by Tuareg militiamen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Jamal Awadh, a soft-spoken 60-year-old who serves as an administrator in the shrine, said many residents feared what might happen when control of the town passed from Shiite militiamen to Sunni rebels last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
He began trying to blunt the danger that he saw lurking in every volatile situation the militiamen put themselves in.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
They would be militiamen, not soldiers, they were told.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
Maya polities were not large enough to maintain standing armies; instead both Kaan and Oxwitza’ mustered short-term militiamen to fight wars.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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