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a large body of men and women organized for land warfare feudal lords depended upon their array for defense

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Recent Examples of array
Noun
Ahead of him was an array of some 200 screens, each offering a view from one of the many cameras on the course, a replay clip or a graphics package. Don Riddell, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025 The plants feed and shelter a staggering array of orioles, green jays, and other birds, whose whistles, caws, and tweets filled the air. Laura Mallonee, Wired News, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
The barbecue tray, with its juicy meat, purple slaw, and heaps of potato salad arrayed on a butcher-paper background, turned out to be perfectly suited to Instagram. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025 Colm Tóibín, writing in the London Review of Books, reports that following Indiana’s death, his books, which in some instances had been arrayed three rows deep on his shelves, had been boxed, carried down from his sixth-floor East Village walkup, and subsequently shepherded cross-country. News Desk, Artforum, 13 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for array
Recent Examples of Synonyms for array
Noun
  • Using data from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Buzzo and her team tracked the movement of a dozen star clusters within FCC 224.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The layoffs have also upended other work done by NIOSH to respond to requests like health hazard evaluations, where workplaces can call on the agency for help investigating health issues on the job, like cancer clusters or fungal outbreaks.
    Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
  • That can be done in part by strengthening the security dimension of increasingly important groupings (the Quad or the trilateral relationship with Japan and Korea).
    Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, presidential paintings, from Washington to Obama, displayed in the White House, traditionally portray their subjects in business attire and formal poses.
    Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • From onstage wardrobes to around-the-grounds party attire and more, this year’s Coachella brought drama, theatricality, sheer looks and more.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In just one transporting sequence that’s almost too much to take in, Coogler traces a line from the blues of the 1930s back to its origins and forward to its influences on funk and beyond.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Colossal managed to resurrect it by editing snippets of the gray wolf’s gene sequence that were most divergent between the two related species.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For several weeks, fighting has intensified between the army and the RSF as government troops push to reclaim territories occupied by the militia.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But even Russia’s huge army cannot survive this sort of attrition indefinitely, and Birds of Magyar’s numbers show just how well Ukraine can fight even without foreign weapons. Follow me on Twitter.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Aparicio’s late grandmother, Maria de la Paz Torres Aparicio, handcrafted dolls adorned with clothes that people left behind during the war.
    Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Today, The Dwarika’s spans 2.5 acres and features 80 rooms and suites, each one adorned with original woodwork, handcrafted furnishings and thoughtful Nepalese details.
    Livia Hengel, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Mourners clad in black and white streamed into the theater and some doubled over in tears as a recording of Pérez singing the national anthem played.
    Martín Adames Alcántara, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Kid Rock in the Oval Office—executive order, clad in a loud red outfit and a cowboy hat with rhinestones, executive order.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the Western Santa Cruz tortoises as critically endangered, estimating approximately 3,400 tortoises remained as of 2010.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Kathleen Kelley Reardon, an expert on organizational politics, classifies political environments from minimally to pathologically politicized.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

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