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as in bouts
a sudden experiencing of a physical or mental disorder
a devastating siege of typhoid fever hit the city
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as in blockades
the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies
after a siege of six weeks, the city of Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant and his Union forces
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Recent Examples of sieges
However, Birru said the sieges were not fully broken.
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ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Now requests are arriving steadily from New York, Maine, and Milan, other locales bracing for their own sieges.
—Kathryn Savage, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
Surovstev’s birthplace, present-day Mariupol, Ukraine, has endured some of the most devastating strikes and sieges from Russia during the war.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Britain ultimately lost not only because of Washington’s extraordinary tenacity in the war’s several mainland theaters, but also because the king’s men had to stage long sieges, wage desperate naval battles, and take mounting casualties on too many other fronts spread too far apart.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Climb the fortress trail to San Giovanni—a crumbling hilltop citadel that once guarded the city from Ottoman sieges—where the vistas stretch like a myth across fjord-like waters.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
So in the worst sieges in Syria, people could smuggle themselves in and out.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Now requests are arriving steadily from New York, Maine, and Milan, other locales bracing for their own sieges.
—Kathryn Savage, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
Surovstev’s birthplace, present-day Mariupol, Ukraine, has endured some of the most devastating strikes and sieges from Russia during the war.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Britain ultimately lost not only because of Washington’s extraordinary tenacity in the war’s several mainland theaters, but also because the king’s men had to stage long sieges, wage desperate naval battles, and take mounting casualties on too many other fronts spread too far apart.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Climb the fortress trail to San Giovanni—a crumbling hilltop citadel that once guarded the city from Ottoman sieges—where the vistas stretch like a myth across fjord-like waters.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
So in the worst sieges in Syria, people could smuggle themselves in and out.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieges
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During their five bouts against each other, Lloyd produced 33 total tackles, two pass breakups and a fumble recovery.—
Mike Kaye
March 31,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
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Boston is in for a wide range of warm and chilly spring days in the coming week, with some potential for bouts of rain, according to National Weather Service forecasts.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
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Currently, the Public Works Department uses vehicles as temporary traffic blockades during those events.—
Chuck Fieldman,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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The blockades of the past are merely a prelude to those to come.—
Robert Moor,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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The White House budget proposes cutting funding for the federal agency created after the September 11, 2001 attacks by $52 million and would require small airports to enroll in a program in which TSA pays for private screeners.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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The attacks bring into sharp relief how some of the key selling points of crypto — decentralization from banks, the ease of transferring large sums, irreversible transactions — also double as its vulnerabilities.—
Megan Cassidy,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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His serious health issues began in 2023 — loss of appetite, shaky hands, chills, severe anxiety, recurring nightmares and small seizures during sleep.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2026
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Patients and care teams often spend years finding the precise combination of medications, doses, and timing that controls seizures.—
James Hart,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
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The candidates earned a median annual income of $489,000 from 2021 to 2025, a total that in most cases includes their spouse’s income.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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Overall, Sosnowski predicts that a gradual warmup is forecast in most cases after a cool start to the week.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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In the future, the researchers would like to expose the embryos to longer microgravity spells to gain deeper insights into the processes taking place in space-like conditions.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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Dry spells are nothing new to ranchers, but this stretch already seems hotter, drier and longer than anyone can recall.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Sieges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieges. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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