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In Virginia, the storm has produced 4 inches of snow in New Castle, a little more than 2 inches in Reams and nearly 3 at Fort Gregg-Adams, an Army garrison.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
6 Jan. 2025 -
The main garrison building bore the marks of two large explosions, but little sign of close-contact fighting.—
Carlotta Gall,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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In Mae La camp, Rosella can’t stray far from her oxygen tank.—
Ivan Watson,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Read on to find a list of foods in the latter camp that registered dietitians wholeheartedly recommend.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
11 Feb. 2025
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Finding individuals with the expertise to transform applications into secure fortresses with additional layers of defense for protecting customer data is a challenge.—
Gil Dabah,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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During World War II, the Nazis transformed the Czech fortress town into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp, a transit point for over 150,000 Jews sent to their deaths.—
Sean Erwin,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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Elsewhere, this could only be a scene of sensory overload, but its eye-of-the-storm geography made the Bowl a kind of redoubt, cool and dark and almost hushed under the purple sky.—
Michael Owen,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Soldiers and marines cleared the Taliban from longtime redoubts and improved security conditions, albeit while sustaining considerable losses.—
Max Boot,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2021
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And so that comes with a lot of trauma, a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of unresolved feelings that men have to carry and still be able to hold the fort down.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2025
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Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell held down the fort this past season, combining to throw 19 touchdowns and 16 interceptions.—
Vincent Frank,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2025
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And the cynicism of the reforms was exposed by the regime's unwillingness to extend them to military cantonment areas or to the federal capital.—
Ilhan Niaz,
Foreign Affairs,
13 June 2012
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The military has established large cantonments in Tamil areas, treating civilians with a heavy hand.—
William McGowan,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Aug. 2012
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The reception from their private showrooms encouraged the designers to embark on their own retail outposts.—
Layla Ilchi,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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For about six-and-a-half hours, the Starliner astronauts removed radio communications hardware and swabbed the outpost's exterior to collect potential microbe samples for analysis.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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On a simple day trip from Paris or a full castle-hopping itinerary across the countryside, visitors can explore everything from medieval strongholds that have stood the test of time to the elegant Renaissance châteaux dotted across the Loire Valley.—
Kimberley Lovato,
AFAR Media,
4 Feb. 2025
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Particularly devastating on rebel strongholds were some 82,000 barrel bombs, 55-gallon drums filled with explosives and dropped from helicopters.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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