volunteer army
Americannoun
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The same dynamic played out in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which saw a volunteer army of pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for numerous attacks on Russian websites and other online services.
From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023
A volunteer army of moms has been poring through records from the 1800s in an attempt to prove Clarence Thomas wrong.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
It was formed in the late 1980s in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands out of the remnants of the Arab volunteer army, who went to fight the Soviets who had invaded and occupied Afghanistan.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2022
Members of Chernihiv’s Territorial Defense, a volunteer army unit, heard the explosion, said one soldier, Ivan Lut.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2022
Yet the Treasury paid this, together with the expenses of government, and reduced the debt seventy-one million dollars before the volunteer army had been fully discharged in 1866.
From Comic History of the United States by F. Opper
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