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Recent Examples of foxhole
Michaels, sitting in a foxhole underneath the audience bleachers, witnesses what gets a laugh and what doesn’t.
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Some left their foxholes to shmooze, sing carols and exchange cigarettes.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
This can be expanded into a foxhole, a one-person fighting position deep enough to stand up in.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that success in battle depends on each side’s ability to sustain munitions production and supply from factory to foxhole.
—Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
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Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Some left their foxholes to shmooze, sing carols and exchange cigarettes.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
This can be expanded into a foxhole, a one-person fighting position deep enough to stand up in.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that success in battle depends on each side’s ability to sustain munitions production and supply from factory to foxhole.
—Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foxhole
Noun
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Take the Viktor Hovland route — second shot into the back bunker for bogey — and see chances for a Sunday triumph dwindle.—
Bob Spear,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Apr. 2025
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Several European nations have been offering sobering guidance in recent months – envisioning garages and subway stations transformed into bunkers and promoting psychological resilience.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Up and down pit road, many crew chiefs anticipated a race where tire conservation would be the primary difference between winning and losing.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Kyle Larson stayed out, and Blaney won the race off pit road.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Bonds invited Holman into the dugout at Olympic Stadium in Montreal.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Manager Carlos Mendoza leapt from the dugout and signaled to the bullpen for Kranick, sending Peterson to get checked out by doctors.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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On the monument to those killed, arrows point outward to Pennsylvania, where unarmed strikers were killed at the Lattimer mine in 1897, and to South Africa, where peaceful protesters were killed at an anti-apartheid rally in Sharpeville in 1960.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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The administration’s goal to address the National Energy Emergency is clearly high on its agenda, but doing so successfully will require a sustained effort to open mines and create critical mineral processing capacity outside of China.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In early February, Amira Abdallah left her shelter in the Abu Shouk displacement camp in Darfur, Sudan, carrying an old stainless steel bowl.—
Violet Ikong,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2025
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If finding indoor shelter is not an option: Stay away from open fields, hill summits, or ridge tops.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxhole. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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