laager

South African

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Noun
  • Meanwhile, the Confederate noose was tightening around Fort Sumter, in the waters off Charleston, where the Northern garrison was effectively under blockade.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Argentario itself, however, was in those years a place of forts and garrisons, with a small civilian population concentrated in two small harbor towns, Porto Ercole and Porto Santo Stefano.
    Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • According to a police statement, a contractor hired to open a seasonal camp in the town came across the car, which was stuck on a camp road.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • The camp includes faculty performances and a final student recital.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • The Castillo de San Sebastián, a crumbling 18th-century fortress at the end of a long causeway in Cádiz, Spain, was locked behind an iron gate.
    Christopher Bagley, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025
  • Why Florida’s Billionaire Set Is Flocking to Manalapan Perched a mere 17 feet above sea level with 120 feet of direct ocean frontage, this tropical contemporary fortress clocks in at over 11,000 square feet, plus a 3,000-square-foot sky deck with unobstructed views of the Atlantic.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • In our redoubt, lawfare is a catastrophe for the legitimacy of our judicial system and for the rule of law that undergirds a secure, prosperous, free society — no matter what party is the practitioner.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Despite the crucial role that the redoubts played in St. Augustine’s history, archaeologists have long struggled to pinpoint the exact location of the defenses.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The board has no shortage of options if the idea truly is to find someone qualified to hold down the fort while the search for a successor to Martinez is conducted.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • The Mets’ bullpen held down the fort and kept them within striking distance.
    James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • In the military cantonment, a formidable army stood at the ready, awaiting its lords’ commands.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • A day earlier, Iraqi troops began turning up in quantity at the huge British cantonment at Basra Airport.
    Simon Akam, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • This international folk horror co-production stars Odessa Young as Eva, a widow struggling to survive in a bleak 19th century fishing outpost in the Arctic.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • China currently maintains two overseas military outposts, one located in Djibouti near the Red Sea and another located in Cambodia on the South China Sea, which opened last month.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The army has continued air strikes in the Darfur region, the RSF’s stronghold.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
  • These strip malls were a way for residents to create a stronghold in their communities, with restaurants, markets and other businesses that catered to an Asian clientele.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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