laager

South African

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Noun
  • In 2020, an Iranian missile attack on a US garrison left more than 100 soldiers with traumatic brain injuries.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
  • Medieval Skeleton Reveals What Life Was Like With a Disability in the Middle Ages A Snapshot of Medieval Life Grave inside the garrison.
    Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Green Bay’s first training camp practice is July 23.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Keeping that in mind, the Bills have now been urged to consider a major wide receiver trade ahead of training camp beginning.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Since its launch, the CUDA ecosystem has created an impenetrable fortress of developer lock-in that competitors have failed to breach despite years of effort.
    Steven Wolfe Pereira, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • City Hall, Albany—these have been fortresses of political entrenchment for a century.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • But the Assembly Public Safety Committee—the redoubt of progressive opposition to crime bills—quietly blocked it.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 1 June 2025
  • Early on June 17, patriot soldiers built a redoubt, or temporary fortification, on top of Breed’s Hill, located next to Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
    Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The researchers think the camp was built in the second century C.E. Over the years, archaeologists have found many forts, towers, cemeteries, canals and temporary military camps along the Limes.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
  • The city's three forts — rough affairs at best — stood in South, North and East Austin.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The school bus was transporting students from various areas to a military-run school in a high-security cantonment, according to officials.
    Zia ur-Rehman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • In the military cantonment, a formidable army stood at the ready, awaiting its lords’ commands.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • The international brands all have their outposts, of course, mostly on the Via Camerelle, while Jackie Kennedy’s favorite, La Parisienne Capri, is still on Piazza Umberto.
    Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
  • Philippe Chow, the upscale Beijing-style restaurant out of New York, will officially open its Nashville outpost in August.
    Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Once a royal residence turned military stronghold, its subterranean spaces include powder magazines and storerooms that played a vital role in its defense, illustrating medieval fortification architecture.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The company has also been a Tennessee stronghold on the Fortune 500 for over a decade.
    Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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