Thesaurus results for EMPLACEMENTS

emplacements

noun

plural of emplacement

as in locations

the area or space occupied by or intended for something the emplacement of the house, which is between two hulking mansions, makes it seem smaller than it is

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Recent Examples of emplacements It was abandoned in 1865, when the war ended, but the cannon emplacements are still visible today, carved into the landscape. — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026 How will that be taken care of and how will the ships that are there, that are not moving, start to move and be moving with a degree of confidence that they will not be inhibited by what remains of the Iranian either boats or gun emplacements along that strait? — Major Garrett, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026 His troops were dug into a lacework of tunnels and gun emplacements and most had survived the pre-invasion bombing, the Courant has reported. — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative found that three sets of three emplacements were built on Mischief Reef in 2023, likely to accommodate road-mobile weapons platforms, including artillery or rocket systems, to defend the outpost. — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025

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By integrating the launcher into a standard shipping container, the solution can be transported more easily, moved between locations, and incorporated into existing logistics and transportation networks.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
While the grocer has several locations across Los Angeles, its Beverly Hills outpost is the biggest scene and a tourist attraction in its own right, drawing visitors who make a point of stopping in to see what the hype is about.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of locations

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Those groups go to 63 third-party logistics sites this year, and each site stages the boxes for 25 to 30 stores before loading them onto trucks.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Nancy’s British father, Gerald Cadogan, is an academic and archaeologist, and much of her childhood was spent on excavation sites in Cyprus and Crete.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of sites

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Those are places where many voters look skeptically, even scornfully, upon big cities and the people who run them.

— Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
The volumes insist that Jewish communities be remembered not solely as sites of death but as places where people lived, argued, worked and celebrated.

— Jennifer Rich, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026

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