Thesaurus results for BEACHHEAD

beachhead

noun

as in foothold

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Recent Examples of beachhead Your sons, daughters, granddaughters, grandsons could be on Kharg Island or be holding a beachhead down by the Strait of Hormuz. —

ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026 Even so, this isn’t only a Shein story, but a broader one about China that reveals the superpower’s ambition to expand e-commerce as a beachhead for infiltrating Western markets despite mounting trade barriers, said Sheng Lu, professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware. —

Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026 The collaboration would give Xiaomi — which Washington believes has ties to the Chinese military — a beachhead in the US, allowing restrictions to be bypassed, the Financial Times reported. —

semafor.com, 3 Feb. 2026 Take, for example, warehouse work, which is usually seen as the beachhead for humanoids owing to its relative simplicity and recruitment challenges. —

James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for beachhead

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But the incident will no doubt deal a blow to not only Blue Origin's ambitions of gaining ground on commercial spaceflight competitor SpaceX, but also to NASA's ambitions of establishing a foothold on the moon.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Blue Origin, which Amazon's Bezos founded back in 2000, sees the 320-foot-tall (98 meters) New Glenn as its launch workhorse, a powerhouse rocket that will help humanity establish a foothold away from Earth.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 May 2026