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Michaels, sitting in a foxhole underneath the audience bleachers, witnesses what gets a laugh and what doesn’t.
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Some left their foxholes to shmooze, sing carols and exchange cigarettes.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
When two mortar rounds landed in his foxhole, Puckett suffered serious wounds to his feet, backside and left arm.
—Stephen Groves, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2024
This can be expanded into a foxhole, a one-person fighting position deep enough to stand up in.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Some left their foxholes to shmooze, sing carols and exchange cigarettes.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
When two mortar rounds landed in his foxhole, Puckett suffered serious wounds to his feet, backside and left arm.
—Stephen Groves, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2024
This can be expanded into a foxhole, a one-person fighting position deep enough to stand up in.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foxhole. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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foxhole
noun
fox·hole
-ˌhōl 
: a pit dug usually in a hurry for individual cover against enemy fire
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