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bivouac

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verb

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as in to tent
to live in a camp or the outdoors the army bivouacked for the night by the lake

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Recent Examples of bivouac
Noun
There is even a vintage bivouac (mountain hut for sleeping) on display. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 The decision to conduct an initial survey and then, later, bivouac inland had been made by someone higher up. Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024 Images of parrots and bivouacs, acid-green leaves and misty forests filled my head. Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 5 May 2024 Whatever the future of downtown may hold, the present offers a grimmer form of walkable density: a growing city of tents and cardboard bivouacs lined up along Skid Row. Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023 The team carrying the stretcher had passed a bivouac site about 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, below the surface on Sunday, the European Cave Rescue Association said. Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2023 Kovacs said lifting Dickey could take several days and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so the rescue personnel and Dickey can rest. Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023 Under the proposal, the cost of camping in both traditional campgrounds, like Watchman, and in wilderness areas, like a bivouac along a rock wall, would go up in most instances. Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023 The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time. Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
Verb
Some cyclists thrive on riding 1,000 miles in cutoff denim shorts, drinking from streams, bivouacking under the stars, and tempting fate with every decision. Stephanie Pearson, WIRED, 31 May 2021 Maoist rebels bivouacked in valleys beyond Kathmandu, promising to topple the monarch and his parliamentary cronies, and install an egalitarian people’s republic. Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023 Thousands of those fighters are now bivouacked in Belarus. John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023 Mazzei’s vineyards showed promise but, according to one legend, were destroyed during the Revolutionary War by rambunctious Hessian prisoners bivouacked there. Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023 And now comes the coronavirus, which has prompted people to bivouac in their homes, theaters to put in place social-distancing restrictions and studios to postpone most theatrical releases through the end of April. New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020 At the end of Pine Creek Canyon Road, nearly 800 girls are bivouacked at Camp Lo-Mia, a retreat for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019 During the Civil War, troops bivouacked in farm fields. John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 May 2018 At night, the POWs bivouacked in fields Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bivouac
Noun
  • Campgrounds There are 500 campsites within Joshua Tree National Park, and most of them are available by reservation.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Picnic tables and charcoal grills are available at the campsites and pavilion.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Holiday Gift Market: Hosted in the heated and tented Bang Bang Bay Chalet.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Even the West Indian drywood termite, the one that prompts tenting, is technically invasive.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
Verb
  • Part of demonstrating that the community cares is by providing a modern facility to house those experiencing homelessness.
    Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Much of Friedrich’s work is housed in Europe, so this is a rare opportunity to assess him in full.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In celebration of the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend, hikers will follow along the main trail, the old campground and the creekside trail for about 2 to 3 miles at an easy pace to count birds.
    Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The mother sun bear and cub appeared at the edge of an empty campground in Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said in a Jan. 17 Facebook post.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Mahan said that homeless residents who had encamped around the surrounding areas would receive priority access to the tiny home community.
    Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • It's believed that everyone else died while encamped for the winter or while attempting to walk back to civilization.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Nvidia’s upcoming launch of the RTX 5000 series is starting to drive at least a few consumers to camp out and wait for days to buy the graphics cards.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
  • At Movimiento Juventud 2000, several families whose appointments had been canceled were camping in tents set up inside a giant warehouse.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yogi Sahu, a nearby resident who had pleaded with the city to address the Chynoweth encampment, noted that two RVs and campers that were among the biggest nuisances merely moved around the corner to spots near Hayes Mansion and on Birch Grove Drive.
    Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Attorneys from three firms representing residents who have separately sued Southern California Edison dismissed the notion that the encampment might have had anything to do with the fire’s start.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Cars carry us around in movable indoor spaces, regardless of season; apartments and houses are equipped with electrical heating and cooling systems that shelter us from nature's harshest days.
    Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels were built in the 1940s to shelter Londoners from the Blitz bombing campaign during World War II.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025

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