as in campgrounds
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins
soldiers setting up a bivouac by the stream
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as in tents
to live in a camp or the outdoors
the army bivouacked for the night by the lake
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as in houses
to provide with living quarters or shelter
survivors of the tornado were bivouacked in the church basement
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Recent Examples of bivouacs
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
As fuel prices continue to climb toward record territory, Costco parking lots are looking more like Mad Max bivouacs than suburban warehouses.
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Andrew P. Collins,
The Drive,
8 Apr. 2026
The main reason for this simplicity is that bivouacs are built on location.
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Maryna Holovnova,
New Atlas,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
Like modern-day companies that merge and re-emerge or fold, some of these schools went under quickly, or moved their bivouacs, or combined forces.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
As fuel prices continue to climb toward record territory, Costco parking lots are looking more like Mad Max bivouacs than suburban warehouses.
—
Andrew P. Collins,
The Drive,
8 Apr. 2026
The main reason for this simplicity is that bivouacs are built on location.
—
Maryna Holovnova,
New Atlas,
7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bivouacs
Noun
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With the exception of Curtis Canyon and Atherton Creek campgrounds, these sites remain free and first-come, first-served.
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In Utah, federal land managers have closed public lands near the Cottonwood Fire as a precaution, and in New Mexico, forest officials closed campgrounds and trails near a wildfire burning in the Jemez Mountains.
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Unlike other watering systems, the IrriSense 2 houses its controller, sprinkler, electric valve, and nutrient feeder in a single device, controlled via an app on your phone.
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The former seminary's crypt now houses the Wine Grotto.
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Use apps to find affordable campsites.
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For years, campers have complained about the abundance of reserved yet unused campsites throughout California's state parks.
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That sounds like a figure of speech because nobody camps out overnight for tickets anymore.
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Now a grandmother, the 65-year-old often camps with up to four generations of her family, from her husband to her grandchildren.
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Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments.
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Antioch, said Torres-Walker, already spends millions on code enforcement contracts to clear encampments around the city.
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Made up of vast mangrove forests, brackish marshlands, and tons of tiny islands, the refuge shelters a wide variety of animals, including American alligators and crocodiles, Florida panthers, manatees, river otters, bottle-nosed dolphins, and more than 200 species of migratory birds.
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The film centers on Cheng Jun, a Chinese international student working the night shift at a 24-hour convenience store who forms an unlikely bond with a homeless elderly woman who shelters there each night.
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While Xugana was one of the first Delta lodges to open in 1974 as part of the Desert & Delta portfolio, in 2025, the property unveiled a complete rebuild.
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In addition, through diplomatic channels in both Beijing and Tokyo, Japan lodges strong representations and protests, stating that maritime and scientific surveys conducted in our EEZ without Japan's consent are unacceptable and must be immediately stopped.
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Davis rooms with his childhood friends Kel (Nicholas Duvernay), who quits medical school in the premiere to pursue his dream of acting, and Josh (Jack Martin), a journalist whose idealism and sense of ethics do not extend to using his media CEO dad to land a gig as a PA on a news show.
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The side rooms off the main gallery contain playful areas that everyone from kids to grown adults will enjoy.
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“Bivouacs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bivouacs. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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