laager

South African

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Noun
  • 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
  • Indian missiles Saturday targeted the Nur Khan air base in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad; Murid air base in Chakwal city and Rafiqui air base in the Jhang district of eastern Punjab province, according to Pakistan’s military spokesman.
    Riazat Butt, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • Kara-France was booked to face Manel Kape in September 2023, but a concussion during training camp prevented Kara-France from competing on that card, UFC 293.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • With training camp rapidly approaching, Richardson has provided a massive update on his shoulder injury.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The Revolutionary Guards thrive on the image of Iran as a besieged fortress.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
  • Conquering Greenland and Panama and building a fortress with high tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back or create prosperity.
    Ro Khanna, Twin Cities, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Salt Lake City, the state capital, is a famously liberal redoubt in a sea of red.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • However, earlier this year, the Trump administration restored the Fort Bragg name, which now refers to Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, who was stationed at the fort during World War II.
    Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2025
  • While at the fort, explore the onsite museum devoted to 18th-century military material culture, such as art, weapons and equipment, like a uniform coat from the independent Boston Corps of Cadets.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 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
  • Schiaparelli’s first European retail outpost outside its Paris salon, the Harrods unit sits in the Superbrands room alongside brands including Loro Piana, which also just opened a new space, with Loewe and Valentino to follow suit this summer.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
  • These hills are the last outpost of the once-mighty and ancient Appalachian range that stretches from northeast Alabama to the tip of Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula, the ground-down essence of the continent.
    Robert Finch June 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • For the past fortnight the invasion force of eight thousand troops had sailed and rowed south for a hundred miles, from the Richelieu River in Quebec to within fifteen miles of the American stronghold at Fort Ticonderoga.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • To be most successful, the company must continue to balance its expansion into solving ultra-difficult scientific and engineering challenges using its supercomputers with maintaining its stronghold in EDA for chip makers.
    Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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