as in embankment
a raised bank or wall made of soil
—usually plural
prehistoric earthworks
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Recent Examples of earthwork
Kyiv has been struggling to boost military recruitment, stiffen its forces’ defensive earthworks, reform archaic command staffs and boost the output of Ukrainian arms factories.
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David Axe, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
The building process included extensive earthworks for support during assembly, later dismantled to reveal the finished form.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2024
This technique minimizes earthwork and avoids damaging tree roots.
—New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
Effigy Mounds preserves 200 or so prehistoric earthworks that were built by pre-Columbian people.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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David Axe, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
The building process included extensive earthworks for support during assembly, later dismantled to reveal the finished form.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2024
This technique minimizes earthwork and avoids damaging tree roots.
—New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
Effigy Mounds preserves 200 or so prehistoric earthworks that were built by pre-Columbian people.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for earthwork
Noun
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Heading further into the thing could have toppled our vehicle and sent us rolling down the embankment.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Footage showed the mangled wreckage on an embankment on the side of the highway.—
Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Perhaps halfway up to the crest which forms the ramparts of the Mule Shoe was a jutting bastion of orange-colored rock.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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The 18th-century ramparts encircling the city are free to climb and boast dramatic ocean views.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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In the early 1900s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began installing canals and levees to control flooding in the Everglades, which allowed people to build farms and communities along its edges.—
John Kominoski,
The Conversation,
15 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of rivers from Arkansas to Indiana were flooding on Sunday, threatening bridges, levees, water and sewage systems, and other infrastructure.—
Patrick J. Lyons,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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The land between the 1982 dam on the east and C-470 on the west is owned by the Corps of Engineers and managed as a park by the city of Lakewood.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
28 Apr. 2025
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Hop Brook Lake and dam are located in the towns of Naugatuck, Waterbury, and Middlebury, according to the corps.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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The fifth season, then, premiered in the noxious contrail of the Dobbs decision, which silenced those who believed a 1973 Supreme Court case could serve as a permanent finger in the political dike.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2025
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Miss Maynard’s class is building Holland on a small scale in one of their sandbox tables with dikes, towers, windmills, boys with wooden shoes and girls with flaxen hair.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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When spring officially begins on March 20, Waukegan Harbor begins to come alive once again as shore fishers hit the breakwaters and boaters begin readying their crafts for a summer of fun on the water.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
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Its first civil works project in the Philadelphia region was the construction of a breakwater near Cape Henlopen, Delaware, in 1829.—
Todd Aagaard,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Singapore also fears that ASEAN could splinter if member states are forced to pick sides, weakening the group’s ability to act as a bulwark against external pressure and great-power competition.—
Lynn Kuok,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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And voilà—America's chief constitutional bulwark against autocracy dissolves.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pioneering and mastery of hydraulics through canals for irrigation purposes and barges to transport huge stones.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Hide Resting among the romantic canals of Madinat Jumeirah, the palatial Four-Star Jumeirah Al Qasr is a spectacular location for an elegant night out in Dubai.—
Natasha Amar,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Earthwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earthwork. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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