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Recent Examples of garrison
Noun
The rebels breached defenses that had held strong for years, encircling and assaulting military garrisons often without much of a fight. Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025 The situation outside the fence of military garrisons is the FSB's area of responsibility. Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
The dish is centered around a fort-like construction of Japanese-style honey toast, garrisoned with ice cream, mango, sticky rice, roti bread and a drizzle of this and that. Stuart Melling, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023 Chinese troops have been garrisoned in Hong Kong since its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, but the PLA has historically kept a very low profile. James Griffiths, CNN, 26 May 2020 See all Example Sentences for garrison 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garrison
Verb
  • San Diego Wave has completed the signing of France midfielder Kenza Dali from Aston Villa. Dali, 33, has joined the club on a two-year deal through to 2027 and will occupy an international slot on the Wave’s roster in 2025.
    Ali Rampling, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • By then, anti-vaccination protesters had occupied the grounds outside Parliament, and Ardern and her family were threatened with violence.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • It’s all set against the stunning backdrop of the original keep, built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders on top of a third-century Roman fort.
    Jamie Carter, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The Bulgarian started once in the first half of the season, but became a mainstay down the home straight, holding the fort in front as Ampadu slotted in behind.
    Beren Cross, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Alawites have become a community besieged, set to be excluded — if not persecuted — by the Sunni political class now in ascendance.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Russian field armies are besieging the city of Pokrvosk just south of Kurdyumivka and also besieging the city of Chasiv Yar north of Kurdyumivka.
    David Axe, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These ingredients are whole foods instead of specific vitamins and minerals that are used in fortification.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Walk the length of the city walls, the most intact fortification of its kind in England.
    Jessica Macdonald, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Trump and many of his advisers are more hawkish on China than on Russia, but that does not mean Trump would risk direct conflict with China if Chinese forces blockaded Taiwan.
    Robin Niblett, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2025
  • China practiced blockading Taiwan just last month by surrounding the island, which could, if executed in earnest, stop imports or exports from the country.
    Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Especially in periods when camp rules allowed detainees to create artwork in their cells, the artists’ use of prison detritus and found objects made the artwork more than simply a depiction of what the men lacked, desired or imagined.
    Alexandra Moore, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Gudin, also an ice skating coach, decided to stay home in Delaware while Kirsanov flew to Kansas for the development camp.
    Jack Moore, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Space stations and planetary outposts must be designed to last, their components recycled and repurposed.
    Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The commercial galleries Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Jeffrey Deitch, each of whom has LA outposts, also contributed.
    Tessa Solomon for ARTnews, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Educators have long relied on Holocaust curricula to combat antisemitism.
    Mark Treyger, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Emhoff’s portfolio as the first Second Gentleman included representing the U.S. at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and numerous other diplomatic events, and leading the administration’s work combatting antisemitism.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025

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