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foxholes

noun

plural of foxhole

as in bunkers

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This is just one of many parts of the course that were absolutely torn up, including an area just off the 1st green where a couple of thousand runners turned areas into mud pits.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Commanders directed operations and communicated with higher command, drivers negotiated bridges, water pits, and craters, and gunners identified targets considered the greatest threat.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026

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Some families planned to head to shelters in Ciudad Constitucion, about 37 miles away, while dozens of people elsewhere in the state were evacuated.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Hundreds of people in the region evacuated, hunkering down in nearby shelters in schools and other facilities.

— Megan Janetsky, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026

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One study links living near new Kern County oil and gas wells to higher infection risk, while massive housing and solar construction promise more soil disturbance and airborne, infectious dust.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Combined with higher reservoir productivity, this could allow Mazama’s wells to generate up to 10 times as much power as conventional geothermal wells.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

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