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troops

/tɹuːps/ noun B2
  1. Military personnel in uniform. · There were 10,000 troops in Iraq.
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They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and formed into troops, regiments, and battalions.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 38 · B2
When all this was done, and the army disciplined, and the herald Mouse had duly proclaimed war by challenging the Weasels, the newly chosen generals bound their heads with straws, that they might be more conspicuous to all their troops.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 38 · B2
And charging along like troops in a battle,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 11 · C1
You are Fernand Mondego, the French officer who led the troops of my noble father!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 878 · C1

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