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Recent Examples of beachhead
Less clear is whether either woman can dislodge the beachheads Trump established for Republicans with working-class minorities.
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Ronald Brownstein, Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2025
Once the beachhead was secure, the Allies began to repair ports, build pipelines, and extend railways.
—Maximilian K. Bremer, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2025
In the meantime, Thor is likely to establish a beachhead in industrial automation robotics, where the return on investment is more near term.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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.
—News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2025
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Ronald Brownstein, Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2025
Once the beachhead was secure, the Allies began to repair ports, build pipelines, and extend railways.
—Maximilian K. Bremer, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2025
In the meantime, Thor is likely to establish a beachhead in industrial automation robotics, where the return on investment is more near term.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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.
—News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beachhead
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Chevron, however, is there for the long haul, and other firms with a foothold in the Orinoco, such as Eni, Repsol, and TotalEnergies, along with oil-services giants like SLB (former Schlumberger) and Halliburton seem interested.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Even if a party besides the junta’s proxy party, the Union Solidarity & Development Party, gains a foothold in the election, the military is already guaranteed a quarter of the seats in both houses of parliament under the 2008 constitution.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
23 Jan. 2026
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Even once a force reaches the far bank, only a small number of soldiers are initially present to secure the bridgehead, often against entrenched defenders with superior firepower and elevation.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Archaeologists identified the Roman bridgehead fort as a first-of-its-kind find for Austria.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2025
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