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While gliders deposited troops and materiel behind enemy lines during the invasion’s opening hours, temporary, mobile harbors—known as Mulberries—addressed the urgent need to rapidly fortify forces to repel the inevitable German counterattack.
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Maximilian K. Bremer, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2025
The night before an away game in Knoxville, Russ and Danny must sneak out of the team hotel and go on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Her death was at the hands of Russian forces; Troian died during an operation near Pokrovsk, after completing more than a thousand successful missions and serving from the Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast all the way behind enemy lines, in the Russian city of Kursk.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
In theory, the ship would drop a drone behind enemy lines before defenses could react and then return to base autonomously.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2025
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Maximilian K. Bremer, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2025
The night before an away game in Knoxville, Russ and Danny must sneak out of the team hotel and go on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Her death was at the hands of Russian forces; Troian died during an operation near Pokrovsk, after completing more than a thousand successful missions and serving from the Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast all the way behind enemy lines, in the Russian city of Kursk.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
In theory, the ship would drop a drone behind enemy lines before defenses could react and then return to base autonomously.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for behind enemy lines
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“Behind enemy lines.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behind%20enemy%20lines. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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