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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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I have a relatively low stress response that "is almost Special Forces... you really are a cool customer I must say", says Bailey.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Commandos for the National Guard Special Forces, or FERI, secured the training exercise area and rescued a "hostage" amid a haze of explosions, smoke, and rattling gunfire.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Special Forces to rappel down from helicopters onto the decks of two shadow tankers in the Indian Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Army Special Forces, made a series of bets on the Polymarket prediction market using his knowledge of what was called Operation Absolute Resolve, according to an indictment made by federal authorities.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

They found Fossie squatting near the gate in front of the Special Forces area.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

At 34, Captain Bustamante is the oldest among them and moves like the special forces officer he used to be.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Katie Miller, wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff, was dining with the president in January, hours before special forces captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, and noticed Trump was in a ruminative mood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Public rebukes followed Hegseth’s decision last month to effectively fire Gen. Chris Donahue, a respected four-star commander who came up the ranks through the special forces.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

U.S. special forces have been training Mexican military teams to repel attacks at stadiums.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026

They waded through burning waters and debris and lumbered ashore like nightmarish special forces.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia