General and Sergeant

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General noun - A fact about the whole (as opposed to particular).

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Sergeant and general are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sergeant" instead a noun "General".

Sergeant noun - Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal.

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General and sergeant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "General" instead a noun "Sergeant".

Danny Glover's character blackmails a supply sergeant into coming on the mission by threatening to spill the beans on him sleeping with a general's wife whom he mistook for his daughter.

Source: The General's Daughter
He ended up as a founder of the Arkansas Chiefdom and the general of its army, but never lost the way of thinking like a sergeant.

Source: Literature / Trail of Glory
In actuality he is still a sergeant, but when asking about a promotion, he was met with the response of "yeah, you're going to be a general".

Source: Sarcasm-Blind

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