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  • noun Plural form of commando.

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Examples

  • The Reuters witness then reported seeing what she described as commandos moving into the presidential compound.

    CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003 2003

  • Reuters has a witness, a Reuters correspondent saying they saw what they described as commandos, U.S. commandos entering the presidential compounds.

    CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003 2003

  • The clothing question in these two commandos is being resolved in the coming week, i.e. they will get their second uniform from Graz presently.

    Work Camp 296/L & 233/L 2010

  • The terrorists knew that if they stayed in one place for long, they might be surprised in their sleep and find themselves being handcuffed by "men with green faces," as they sometimes called our commandos, whose faces, backlit by their night-vision goggles, seemed to glow green with menace in the middle of the night.

    The SEAL Sensibility Eric Greitens 2011

  • Inevitable Flashback Discuss: What did you think of the penguin commandos in Batman Returns?

    LOL: Batman Returns Penguin Commando Tattoo | /Film 2008

  • In 1999, the CIA commenced a covert operation to train 60 commandos from the Pakistani intelligence agency to enter Afghanistan to capture bin Laden.

    Aural History 2003

  • In 1999, the CIA commenced a covert operation to train 60 commandos from the Pakistani intelligence agency to enter Afghanistan to capture bin Laden.

    Aural History 2003

  • I was reading their accounts of the prisoner exchange and remembering the words of the late George Carlin: why are Israeli terrorists called commandos, and why are Palestinian commandos called terrorists.

    Thursday, July 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • I was reading their accounts of the prisoner exchange and remembering the words of the late George Carlin: why are Israeli terrorists called commandos, and why are Palestinian commandos called terrorists.

    Wednesday, July 16, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • He said the commandos were a military unit, not trained to fight crime.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

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