embrasure

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Recent Examples of embrasure One room holds an embrasure, complete with a cannon, for those who can’t make the 2.5-mile round-trip hike to the fort itself. Erin L. Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embrasure
Noun
  • Developer Patrick Madden indents to bring a Wawa convenience store to the site as well as 240 apartments spread across multiple three-story buildings.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2025
  • Unlike the grooves of a normal road wheel, its surface is almost completely smooth except for small indents, patterned differently between front and back wheel, which are designed to just slightly roughen the air, encouraging the right level of turbulent flow.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Flour the tines of a fork; lightly press it into edge of the dough to create indentations.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The bullet casing had the same tool markings – unique individual indentations that guns produce on casings once they have been expended – to a gun used in an unsolved murder in Kentucky in 1998.
    Jean Casarez, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While Chinese industrial companies saw their earnings surge the most in nearly two years last month, the job market remains gloomy and a years long housing crash is lingering.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Available inventory and the amount of housing still under construction play a huge role in where home prices are spiking nationwide.
    Alix Langone, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As conversations continue around Gaza's reconstruction amid the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire, doctors and humanitarian workers are urging that efforts be focused on addressing the malnutrition crisis, noting that simply flooding the zone with aid won't make a meaningful dent.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Ready or not, the holiday shopping season is here and now is the time to start making a dent in your shopping list.
    Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Three men shared this cubicle—Qing Yuan during the night shift, Qi Chu the morning, and Lao Jia the afternoon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • More than 30 participating brands took over the center of the Oculus in a Sephoria-esque labyrinth of cubicles, each fashioned after each brand’s DNA.
    James Manso, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a shrine by the road, its iron doors spotted with rust.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Visiting the shrine as prime minister would risk inflaming anger in the region.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sovereign credit ratings express the likelihood that sovereign borrowers will repay borrowed money on time and in full based on the terms of the indenture.
    Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike the definition of indenture servitude, in which someone works for a single employer without pay, visa holders may change employers and are paid.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024

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“Embrasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embrasure. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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