Synonyms for forces
forces

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1. forces

   An army is an organized body of men armed for war, ordinarily considerable in numbers, always independent in organization so far as not to be a constituent part of any other command. Organization, unity, and independence, rather than numbers are the essentials of an army. We speak of the invading army of Cortes or Pizarro, tho either body was contemptible in numbers from a modern military standpoint. We may have a little army, a large army, or a vast army. Host is used for any vast and orderly assemblage; as, the stars are called the heavenly host. Multitude expresses number without order or organization; a multitude of armed men is not an army, but a mob. Legion (from the Latin) and phalanx (from the Greek) are applied by a kind of poetic license to modern forces; the plural legions is preferred to the singular. Military is a general word for land-forces; the military may include all the armed soldiery of a nation, or the term may be applied to any small detached company, as at a fort, in distinction from civilians. Any organized body of men by whom the law or will of a people is executed is a force; the word is a usual term for the police of any locality.

   Synonyms:
   armament, army, array, force, host, legions, military, multitude, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery, troops

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1. List of paraphrases for "forces":

   troops, force, strengths, troop, strength, sil, fuerzas, powers, army, strong, military, units, soldiers, cf, obliges, power, armies, groups

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1. Brig Gen Thomas Weidley:

   Since fall 2014, Kurdish forces in both Iraq and Syria, enabled by the coalition, have only taken territory from Daesh, never ceding it.

2. Mark Milley:

   Given the type of forces that are arrayed... if that was unleashed on Ukraine, it would be significant, very significant, and it would result in a significant amount of casualties, you can imagine what that might look like in dense urban areas, along roads, and so on and so forth. It would be horrific. It would be terrible.

3. Teddy Schleifer:

   The same forces that create the winners of capitalism also create a lot of inequality.

4. Peter Mansoor:

   This is a huge setback to Iraqi forces and to the U.S. strategy to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIS.

5. South African:

   A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world.