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  Special Forces

  plural noun

  U.S. Army personnel trained to organize, instruct, supply, and supervise local forces engaged in guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, and to themselves conduct unconventional warfare.
• special forces
  special forces

  plural noun

  élite, highly trained military forces, specially selected to work on difficult missions

Special Forces

American  

plural noun

1. U.S. Army personnel trained to organize, instruct, supply, and supervise local forces engaged in guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, and to themselves conduct unconventional warfare.

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special forces British  

plural noun

1. élite, highly trained military forces, specially selected to work on difficult missions

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Example Sentences

He's mastered the mystical forces of the universe only to find themselves playing rat catcher cleaning him another man's interdimensional infestation.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2022

Superstition, like fatalism, is big in Odesa, which has seen enough upheaval to suspect that mystical forces must be at work.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Ash, Pikachu, Brock and Misty must rescue a little girl and her mother from mystical forces.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2020

In theory, the video game character-turned-action movie heroine is an independent badass: She’s a self-employed explorer who knows how to climb mountains, take on mystical forces and wield a gun.

From Time • Apr. 29, 2016

It seemed, at the moment, the simplest way of watching these odd mystical forces, if there were any such forces, at work.

From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame