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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foxholes
Noun
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In a third and final scenario — the one designed to test insight — the team moved the flower from the floor to the ceiling, just above one of four pits shaped to accommodate the ball.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026 -
More generally, cottonmouths have broad heads and dark stripes that run through their eyes, as well as deep facial pits between their eyes and nostrils.—
Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
Noun
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Lumber was in high demand for fueling iron furnaces and providing timber framing for local coal mines and for shipbuilding.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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In Johannesburg, violent gangs are involved in illicit mining in and around a city that has large gold reserves and many mines that have been abandoned by companies.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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And a few, like Giuliana Rancic, will flog some specific Pratt issues, like the brutal state of the city’s animal shelters.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
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While in office, Raman has voted dozens of times against establishing new no-camping zones near homeless shelters, senior centers, freeway overpasses and other locations.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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The wells would extend roughly five miles underground, stretching beneath parts of Erie.—
Sarah Horbacewicz,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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For decades, energy companies have disposed of that briny fluid by shooting it back underground using high-pressure injection wells.—
Katie Campbell,
ProPublica,
2 June 2026
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“Foxholes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxholes. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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