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Recent Examples of embattlement
After a long career of constant crisis, of triumph and embattlement, Lula looks his age.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2023
For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.
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Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2022
Accurate reporting and erroneous articles alike bred a deep sense of embattlement in Palo Alto.
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Ben Smith,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2021
Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and the Civil War Battery Hooper, a hillside cannon embattlement, was part of a ring of defenses set up across Northern Kentucky.
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Chris Mayhew,
The Enquirer,
13 Sep. 2021
The physicality of conflict may be out of sight, but the tension of living in a constant state of embattlement is palpable.
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Danielle Avram,
Dallas News,
28 Jan. 2021
But his embattlement also colors the regular work of electioneering, which always involves upbeat rallies and hopeful promises.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2020
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2023
For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.
—
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2022
Accurate reporting and erroneous articles alike bred a deep sense of embattlement in Palo Alto.
—
Ben Smith,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2021
Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and the Civil War Battery Hooper, a hillside cannon embattlement, was part of a ring of defenses set up across Northern Kentucky.
—
Chris Mayhew,
The Enquirer,
13 Sep. 2021
The physicality of conflict may be out of sight, but the tension of living in a constant state of embattlement is palpable.
—
Danielle Avram,
Dallas News,
28 Jan. 2021
But his embattlement also colors the regular work of electioneering, which always involves upbeat rallies and hopeful promises.
—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embattlement
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Meanwhile, Desmond Castle stands watch beyond the village park—its stone battlements and arrow slits recalling Norman skirmishes and feudal lords.
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As part of that, some of its defensive features like towers and battlements were removed.
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In 1946, Picasso set up his studio in Château Grimaldi, a former medieval castle perched above the ramparts.
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The best are those on top floors with views of the pool or Caribbean Sea beyond city ramparts—uninterrupted for over 500 miles north to Jamaica.
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Alexander the Great conquered it in 332 BCE after building a causeway to what had been considered an impregnable island fortress.
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Some, like France's Maginot Line, became border fortresses stretching for miles, while German coastal defenses sat on the cliffs of Normandy, requiring the Allies to take out with sea bombardments and direct infantry assaults.
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The red brick building, with its geometric parapet wall and barrel plank ceiling, was built in the 1930s.
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Inspired by natural cave formations, the 6-meter (20-feet) tall, 50-square-meter (538-square-foot) house took just 14 days to print on site — from foundation to rooftop parapet — using a giant gantry printer, says Igarashi.
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As a result, Democrats make inroads even on longtime local Republican strongholds.
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Morales has been entrenched in his coca-growing stronghold in the Chapare region since 2024 and has refused to appear before the courts.
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For the past 30 years, the 6,000-square-foot bulwark served as the Yancey County Public Library, but no amount of shelving could mask the fact something more complex and was just below the surface.
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In casting a figure who could embody an industry, a medium, a bulwark against unworthy encroachers and invaders, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow brought in Burrows as the most believable person possible.
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In it, Rocío, played by Rocío Molina, a leading light of the international flamenco vanguard, returns to her Ebro Delta home to attend the funeral of her mother, a bastion of traditional flamenco.
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Bored Lord and AceMo, longtime bastions of their respective coastal scenes, offer up two rumbling club heaters.
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The infantrymen around him peeped painfully over the heap of dirt that substituted for a breastwork.
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“Embattlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embattlement. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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