beachheads

plural of beachhead

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for beachheads
Noun
  • Create footholds for bats to roost.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Despite a bloody war fought between the two neighbors from 1980 to 1988, Baghdad remains one of Tehran's few remaining footholds in the region.
    Emma Graham, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Having fought Trump most of this year on a variety of fronts, Newsom has put a lot of his own political capital on the line with California’s redistricting measure Proposition 50.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Combined with earlier work, it's become clear that these men were under microbial assault on all fronts.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The phenomenon, known as granular jamming, has long fascinated physicists who study how materials like sand and coffee grounds can switch from flowing freely to becoming rigid under pressure.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The picturesque grounds tend to steal the show here, though.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The drama was about a war correspondent on the front lines of Afghanistan.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has called for an immediate stop to the fighting along current front lines, which Moscow has rejected.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Beachheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beachheads. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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