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Recent Examples of foxhole
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that success in battle depends on each side’s ability to sustain munitions production and supply from factory to foxhole.
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Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
One of the words that comes up more than once in the book is trinchera, or foxhole.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
In times of high tension, shells fly and residents hunker in fortified foxholes.
—Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
If the fox reaches the foxhole first, though, the players lose!
—Keith Law, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
One of the words that comes up more than once in the book is trinchera, or foxhole.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
In times of high tension, shells fly and residents hunker in fortified foxholes.
—Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
If the fox reaches the foxhole first, though, the players lose!
—Keith Law, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foxhole
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Straka’s second shot found the dormant grass right of the fairway leaving a wedge shot with the treacherous bunker looming on the opposite side of the green.—
Gabby Herzig,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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The former aren’t stable enough to transport to a bunker, and, as such, must be destroyed on the spot.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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These pathological behaviors pit colleagues against each other, creating a hostile environment of instability and chaos that shifts the focus of their toxic behaviour.—
Jason Walker,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In homage to stock car racing’s roots in North Carolina, Red Bull Non-Stock 600 pits teams against one another in a go-kart race around an oval track.—
AvidXchange Music Factory,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Jan. 2025
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He was joined in the dugout by club captain Seamus Coleman, who had initially expected to be on the substitutes’ bench.—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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After then-Blaugrana head coach Xavi Hernandez won the mid-season competition as his first piece of silverware in the Barca dugout at the turn of 2023, Vinicius Jr. scored the fastest hat trick in El Clasico in its following edition to help secure a 4-1 final win.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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When one of them, Lena Corbyn (59), inherits a third of a British-Swiss mining empire, the friends join forces to revolutionise Corbyn Commodities by closing a harmful coal mine in South Africa and granting employees shares of the family business.—
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Burgum also pledged to work with Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines to advance pending coal mine expansion permits in the lawmaker’s state.—
Matthew Brown,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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Concern for the homeless in Pensacola In Pensacola, transit bus drivers provided free transportation to area cold weather shelters that made room for record numbers of people.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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Who is helping the migrants at the border? Migrant shelters in Ciudad Juarez are taking in some of the migrants who have now been stranded.—
Abel Alvarado,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxhole. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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