Definitions
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- adjective armed with light weapons
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Examples
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Closer to the main rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, fighting between lightly-armed rebel forces and Gadhafi loyalists continued on the outskirts of Ajdabiya for a third day, with little sign of change.
Coalition Strikes Libyan Military Amid Ground Stalemate 2011
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Closer to the main rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, fighting between lightly-armed rebel forces and Gadhafi loyalists continued on the outskirts of Ajdabiya for a third day, with little sign of change.
Coalition Strikes Libyan Military Amid Ground Stalemate 2011
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Pro-Gadhafi forces have been bombarding the town and claimed to have seized it Tuesday after skirmishes with the mostly young and lightly-armed rebels.
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Closer to the main rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, fighting between lightly-armed rebel forces and Gadhafi loyalists continued on the outskirts of Ajdabiya for a third day, with little sign of change.
Coalition Strikes Libyan Military Amid Ground Stalemate 2011
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Pro-Gadhafi forces have been bombarding the town and claimed to have seized it Tuesday after skirmishes with the mostly young and lightly-armed rebels.
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Pro-Gadhafi forces have been bombarding the town and claimed to have seized it Tuesday after skirmishes with the mostly young and lightly-armed rebels.
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In the end, if history is any guide, many of these weapons will become the overpriced means of killing lightly-armed men, along with unarmed men, women, and children in one poverty-stricken country or another in the decades to come.
Nick Turse: Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race Nick Turse 2011
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In the end, if history is any guide, many of these weapons will become the overpriced means of killing lightly-armed men, along with unarmed men, women, and children in one poverty-stricken country or another in the decades to come.
Nick Turse: Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race Nick Turse 2011
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It's awfully hard for the world's greatest power to admit its high-tech military forces are being beaten in Afghanistan by a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen that we dismiss as "terrorists."
Eric Margolis: Playing Nuclear Chicken in Southeast Asia Eric Margolis 2011
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Closer to the main rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, fighting between lightly-armed rebel forces and Gadhafi loyalists continued on the outskirts of Ajdabiya for a third day, with little sign of change.
Coalition Strikes Libyan Military Amid Ground Stalemate 2011
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