volunteer army
Americannoun
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Farage said Bull's role would be to "inspire" the party's base and "give leadership to that volunteer army out there".
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
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
One big reason the Gluesenkamp Perez campaign triumphed has to do with a pretty retro strategy: a big volunteer army of doorknockers.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2022
Records are maintained through a publicly available, digital ledger, known as a blockchain, managed by a volunteer army over numerous servers.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021
Further, in its variable size this was the very type of a volunteer army, of which every man owned his equipment, clothed himself, and considered himself still, to a large extent, his own master.
From The Siege of Boston by French, Allen
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