laagers

plural of laager, South African

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Noun
  • By 1943, Arkansas had received the first of 23,000 German and Italian prisoners of war, who would live and work at military installations and branch camps throughout the state.
    Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2026
  • Getty Images For one weekend, one of America’s most secure and strategically important military installations stopped sounding like jet engines and started sounding like stock cars.
    Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Because these positions are often held by relatively small Ukrainian garrisons due to the challenges of resupply, Russian forces that reach the town in sufficient numbers are likely to capture it.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Iran maintains military assets and garrisons on the islands.
    Sam Metz, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • These criticisms broadly fall into a few camps, some with more scientific legitimacy than others.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 18 June 2026
  • This package combines stops at Victoria Falls, the Okavango Delta, and the red dunes of Sossusvlei with memorable hotel stays, fine dining, and luxury safari camps.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Avila Chevalier survived a deluge of attacks for previous social media posts that called for abolishing the police and prisons.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • In third place with two million posts, Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way follows the country’s rugged western coastline, extending over 1,500 miles from the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal to the town of Kinsale, County Cork.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Some of the new settlements approved recently are retroactive legalizations of tiny outposts, while others are neighborhoods of existing settlements.
    Melanie Lidman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Some of the new settlements approved recently are retroactive legalizations of tiny outposts, while others are neighborhoods of existing settlements.
    Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Cannons and fortifications are also on the grounds.
    USA TODAY Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Built as a Crusader castle around the 12th century on top of previous fortifications, it has also been used by Saladin’s Jerusalem army, Mamluks, Ottomans, the French and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • The trailers show that Eternia was once a vibrant alien-like world with multi-colored forests, massive mountains and fortresses with towering faces carved into their entrances.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • And by the turn of the twenty-first century, most of those tiny bungalows had been replaced by sprawling estates—fortresses for the entertainment elite, where Oscar trophies adorned mantels and wealth guarded from disaster.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
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“Laagers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laagers. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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