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- noun Alternative form of
lieutenant colonel .
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Examples
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The generals had been shocked when in 1998 Yeltsin sent this lieutenant-colonel, still wet behind the ears, to command them.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The generals had been shocked when in 1998 Yeltsin sent this lieutenant-colonel, still wet behind the ears, to command them.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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How fair could this jury be given that it included a Navy captain, a Marine colonel who was wounded in a firefight in Iraq, an Army lieutenant-colonel who served more than a year at an unnamed detention center, a Navy commander, an Army lieutenant-colonel who once served as a military policeman, a Navy lieutenant-commander who is a submarine officer and an Army major in military intelligence.
Maher Arar: Omar Khadr: America's Injustice, Canada's Shame Maher Arar 2010
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Three European U.N. staff members—a female Norwegian lieutenant-colonel, and heads of the U.N. political and human-rights sections—were killed, according to diplomats in Kabul.
Afghan Anger at Quran Burning Turns Deadly Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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Two senior officers, a major and a lieutenant-colonel, were among the eight killed, said the officials.
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How fair could this jury be given that it included a Navy captain, a Marine colonel who was wounded in a firefight in Iraq, an Army lieutenant-colonel who served more than a year at an unnamed detention center, a Navy commander, an Army lieutenant-colonel who once served as a military policeman, a Navy lieutenant-commander who is a submarine officer and an Army major in military intelligence.
Maher Arar: Omar Khadr: America's Injustice, Canada's Shame Maher Arar 2010
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But Kaminer said she was proud to have had five children who went on to prosperous lives, including a commercial real estate agent and a lieutenant-colonel in the army.
Leona Gage, Miss USA Winner Who Had Title Stripped, Dies At 71 AP 2010
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But Kaminer said she was proud to have had five children who went on to prosperous lives, including a commercial real estate agent and a lieutenant-colonel in the army.
Leona Gage, Miss USA Winner Who Had Title Stripped, Dies At 71 AP 2010
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Now that we wore rank, it fell upon lieutenant-colonel Christopher Stanford to say something profound.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Two senior officers, a major and a lieutenant-colonel, were among the eight killed, said the officials.
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