the Pentagon

noun

: the building in Washington, D.C., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense

: the leaders of the U.S. military

There was disagreement between the President and the Pentagon over the new military budget.

Examples of the Pentagon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His first book, Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism (The University of North Carolina Press, 2024), traces the economic, political, and cultural connections between the country music business and the U.S. military since World War II. —

Joseph M. Thompson / Made By History, TIME, 6 June 2024 Even if the Pentagon makes efforts to preserve the advances in military medicine, future wartime medicine could look very different. —

NPR, 3 June 2024 A lot of people that walk around the Pentagon are not in a position to give orders. —

CBS News, 2 June 2024 American officials say the policy shift means Ukrainian attacks with U.S. weapons in Russia can be pre-emptive but can take place only within Russian areas near Kharkiv that the Pentagon has designated and that U.S. military officials have communicated to their Ukrainian counterparts. —

Edward Wong, New York Times, 31 May 2024 Both sides mutually agreed to a withdrawal deadline of September 15 after several days of meetings between May 15-19, according to a joint statement from the Pentagon and Niger's national defense department released Sunday. —

Matt Seyler, ABC News, 19 May 2024 How is the Pentagon planning to protect U.S. forces? —

Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024 The other officer had taken a highly public press job at the Pentagon, was in the process of becoming an admiral and was in line to become the Navy’s top spokesperson. —

Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024 Austin will undergo the procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, said Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon's top spokesman, who announced the procedure in a statement issued Friday afternoon. —

Luis Martinez, ABC News, 24 May 2024

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