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  • noun Plural form of guerrilla.

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Examples

  • In eastern Turkey, suspected guerrillas from the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, killed four policemen, triggering riots.

    Turkey Sees Hidden Hand in Kurd Riots Erkan 2010

  • We issued our first communiqué — a word we borrowed from Latin American guerrillas — called a “Declaration of War” and signed by “Bernardine Dohrn”, in May 1970.

    Weather Underground Redux 2006

  • We issued our first communiqué — a word we borrowed from Latin American guerrillas — called a “Declaration of War” and signed by “Bernardine Dohrn”, in May 1970.

    April « 2006 « Bill Ayers 2006

  • After this last adventure Benigno more or less settles down, training Latin American guerrillas at the special clandestine schools that the Central Committee's quasi-autonomous Departamento Américas has set up on the island.

    Fidel in the Evening Guillermoprieto, Alma 1998

  • And Campoalegre sits under a hill that still harbors them (one of the big problems with the guerrillas is the terrain.

    3 Small Town Evenings « Unknowing 2010

  • February 1998) "The Pentagon lists six prisoners and 311 men missing in Laos, but officials believe that the number of prisoners held by the Pathet Lao guerrillas is substantially higher."

    Statistics on the Prisoner of War issue 2010

  • In an interview before leaving the U.S., Mr. Sangay revealed that his father left the monkhood to join Tibetan guerrillas fighting Chinese troops who entered Tibet in 1950, and was shot in the leg while helping to provide security for the escaping Dalai Lama.

    Tibetan Exiles Swear In New Leader Jeremy Page 2011

  • Kennedy crafted his remarks at a critical point in the Cold War, then unique among wars for its covert battles and concealment, what Kennedy called "guerrillas by night instead of armies by day."

    Barbie Zelizer: JFK and the Press, Reconsidered Today Barbie Zelizer 2011

  • (I exclude partisan campaigns of the Peninsular War type, in which the guerrillas are an adjunct to a war proper.)

    There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria 2008

  • Hamas, ragtag guerrillas, killed a dozen Israelis.

    Ray Hanania: The Defamation of Cynthia McKinney and the Violation of Her Civil Rights 2009

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