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Recent Examples of foxhole
Or maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole.
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Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are too deep in their respective partisan foxholes to cut any deal.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Imagine sitting in a cafe or a foxhole or a government office in Ukraine on Friday, watching those first scenes in Anchorage.
—Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
Instead infantry soldiers squeeze into foxholes in groups of two or three.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
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Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are too deep in their respective partisan foxholes to cut any deal.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Imagine sitting in a cafe or a foxhole or a government office in Ukraine on Friday, watching those first scenes in Anchorage.
—Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
Instead infantry soldiers squeeze into foxholes in groups of two or three.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foxhole
Noun
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The heated exchange occurred after Northern Ireland's McIlroy hit a poor shot on the 16th hole, which sent the ball straight into a bunker.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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Xander Schauffele went from the front bunker over the 13th green, took two shots to get it up the slope to the putting surface and had to make a 15-foot putt for bogey.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
Noun
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The Hatches lined a 6-foot pit with rocks and mortar and kept building higher — extending the walls 16 feet high inside their family barn.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
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There’s also a sand pit where children can dig up replicas of pygmy mammoth bones.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
Noun
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Boone, meanwhile, hung his head in dissatisfaction on the steps of the Yankees’ dugout.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2026
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Espada and an athletic trainer met Altuve at the top step of the dugout and escorted him to the team’s clubhouse.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
Noun
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In the dark tunnels of an active mine near Timmins, Ontario, something extraordinary is leaking out of the Earth.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
18 May 2026
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Anglo American's coking coal mine in Australia.—
Yessar Rosendar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Though many people come to far West Texas for its isolation—the Unabomber’s slightly less reclusive brother did a stint here in the eighties, living at first in a crude underground shelter—Miller said that immigration-enforcement agents have been an intrusive presence for many years.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Newborns in incubators were transferred and doctors and nurses scrambled to find shelter amid fears the hospital would become the next casualty in Haiti’s escalating gang wars.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxhole. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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