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  • noun Plural form of deserter.

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Examples

  • Some 200 deserters from the US military are believed to have fled to Canada, some living incognito.

    Canada To Expel U.S. Army Deserter | Disinformation 2008

  • The long list of former loyal Bushies turned deserters is getting even longer ... hard to believe.

    Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature' 2008

  • More significant, their watery wilderness sheltered thousands of deserters from the Iran-Iraq War, and it had recently provided a haven to which Shiite rebels had been able to escape during the collapse of the 1991 uprising.

    The Accuser 2005

  • In 1802, Dingle, now back in Bay Bulls, again wrote Governor Gambier respecting the frequency with which deserters from the navy made their way through that community and on to the south, where they found sanctuary and employment with the "inhabitants."

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • He reminded Gambier of the 1797 incident in Trepassey, "when a desperate gang, deserters from the Newfoundland Regiment, were lurking about that place" and the "inhabitants" had refused to cooperate with authorities in rounding them up. 128 If the harboring of deserters was as effective as Dingle's letters imply, the entire plebeian community — women as well as men — had to be part of the network of sanctuary and the conspiracy of silence.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • More significant, their watery wilderness sheltered thousands of deserters from the Iran-Iraq War, and it had recently provided a haven to which Shiite rebels had been able to escape during the collapse of the 1991 uprising.

    The Accuser 2005

  • Its the story of Irish deserters from the U.S. Army to the Mexican Army in the war of 1846-48.

    My knowledge of history is horrible 2003

  • Arab deserters from the Turkish armies, followed, often as not, by

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Coletos are macho, a power sign originating with the deserters from the Conquistador armies, after which they are named.

    Screwing the screw fly in Chiapas 2000

  • By the beginning of March the Bureau of Conscription estimated that 100,000 deserters from the Southern armies were at large.10

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

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