laager

Definition of laagernext
South African

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Noun
  • Troops departed the al Tanf garrison in southern Syria and the al Shaddadi base in the country's northeast earlier this year.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Although originally built as a military post housing garrisons sent to quell the Jacobite uprisings, the beautiful town today has a happier purpose.
    Patti Nickell, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Clark was scheduled to start his annual tour of spring training camps on Tuesday.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • After falling behind Busch in one at-bat, Wiggins, in his first big-league camp, battled back to work a full count before getting Busch to whiff at an offspeed pitch low and out of the zone.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Worth singling out for praise is the Treehouse Suite, the only option which lies outside of the main fortress.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Collins, a 9/11 truther and QAnon convert who sports a black MAGA hat and custom dental fangs, moved to rural Shawmut, Montana, in 2016 to build a bug-out — an off-grid fortress suitable for waiting out a plague or world war — and raise horses with his wife, Starla.
    Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • One by one, Robbins and his team peeled away from their redoubt behind the Interceptor and cleared the pickups and the Wagoneers.
    Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Now his officers are under siege from all sides, and the command center at the downtown Minneapolis precinct is their redoubt.
    Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The fort was as agreeable as Thompson could have possibly hoped.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The smell of coal soot was all pervasive, and the particulate found its way into every nook and cranny of the fort.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The captain had done a brief stint in OK town cantonment after getting his commission three and a half years ago and knew that the vehicle registration plates were the only exciting thing about the city.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The installation was locked down less than 10 minutes after the shooting was reported, and officials lifted the lockdown of the main cantonment area at 12:10 p.m.
    Alexandra Koch , Liz Friden, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Under Mariano Rubinacci’s lead, the tailoring house rebranded as Rubinacci in 1963 and opened an outpost on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone in 1974.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • These are Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, which has outposts in Abidjan, Dakar, and Paris; Madrid’s Galería Guillermo de Osma; Paris’s Galerie Kaléidoscope; Milan’s ML Fine Art; and Tokyo’s Kotaro Nukaga.
    News Desk, Artforum, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The most dramatic action from that mandate was the seizure in late January of ballots and 2020 election records from Fulton County in Georgia, a Democratic stronghold that includes Atlanta.
    Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Zillow recently ranked the exclusive community as the most expensive in the country, edging past traditional luxury strongholds like Beverly Hills.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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