sieges

plural of siege
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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 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
Noun
  • Nor does the Love Actually star plan a viewing, because Nighy, admitting to crippling bouts of screen fright, has long refused to view any of his performances, alone or alongside audiences.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Over his career, Inoue won and defended the WBO junior bantamweight title seven times before moving to bantamweight for nine bouts.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beijing's forces have responded to Philippine challenges with blockades, ramming maneuvers, and water cannon, raising fears that a miscalculation could draw the United States into a conflict with its military rival.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In Syria, the Assad regime had this ‘surrender or starve’ set of blockades.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the downward pressure on cost of cyber attacks, the sector continues to grow, as more companies treat cyber security incidents as a top priority.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This prevents many attacks that use lookalike domain names or hacks such as DNS cache poisoning to create rogue sites masquerading as the real, trusted ones.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The original Streameast has still been accessible since the August 2024 seizures.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In essence, the court approved of what amounted to the INS’s reliance on racial profiling to seize entire workforces without individualized objective facts and rational inferences normally required under the Fourth Amendment for seizures of a person.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, Fazio notes that some vitamin supplementation, like with iron, should only be used in specific cases and otherwise avoided unless clearly indicated by a professional.
    Brianna Peters, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2025
  • However, the agency added that there have been fatal cases in other countries.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Other hydrangea types, like panicle and smooth, grow on new wood so they can be pruned in fall, but waiting until spring provides protection against new growth emerging during warm spells.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • With all the new faces, the leadership of players like Alanna Kennedy and Katie Zelem — fresh off the plane from Los Angeles after spells at Angel City — can offer a lot, given their previous WSL experience.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Sieges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieges. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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