beachhead
noun
beach·head
ˈbēch-ˌhed 
1
: an area on a hostile shore occupied to secure further landing of troops and supplies
2
: foothold
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The space for decades was a fixture of New York’s downtown scene at its location at the city’s General Hardware building, before decamping to Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood in 2016 and then briefly establishing a beachhead in Jersey City.
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News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2025
Less well-known are the battles during the days and weeks that followed in Normandy, which helped secure the massive beachhead, so the allies could go on and defeat Nazi Germany in World II.
—Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
So in 2011, the firm’s founders tapped Taneja, along with a handful of other partners, to build a beachhead in Palo Alto.
—Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Sun turned a profit in 2010, a first for The W. All those years when pro women’s basketball struggled to gain a beachhead in the national sports landscape, Connecticut and Mohegan Sun were safe harbor.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
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News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2025
Less well-known are the battles during the days and weeks that followed in Normandy, which helped secure the massive beachhead, so the allies could go on and defeat Nazi Germany in World II.
—Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
So in 2011, the firm’s founders tapped Taneja, along with a handful of other partners, to build a beachhead in Palo Alto.
—Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The Sun turned a profit in 2010, a first for The W. All those years when pro women’s basketball struggled to gain a beachhead in the national sports landscape, Connecticut and Mohegan Sun were safe harbor.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
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beachhead
noun
beach·head
ˈbēch-ˌhed
: an area on an enemy shore held by an advance force of an invading army to protect the later landing of troops or supplies
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