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Recent Examples of foxhole
Any soldier in a foxhole may have dug their own grave.
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David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Michaels, sitting in a foxhole underneath the audience bleachers, witnesses what gets a laugh and what doesn’t.
—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
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David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Michaels, sitting in a foxhole underneath the audience bleachers, witnesses what gets a laugh and what doesn’t.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foxhole
Noun
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At the tunnel’s exit point near San Jacinto, the only visible signs of the infrastructure are several concrete structures resembling bunkers.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Current regulations require bunkers to be crisis-ready in less than five days.—
Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
The Dial,
24 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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There were jokes in the dugout and even on the local FanDuel Sports Kansas City broadcast.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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That’s pretty much the same thing Jacobs coach Jamie Murray saw from the opposing dugout.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
25 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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Steve Marcus/Reuters/File To extract them, most companies use large, open-pit mines, which environmentalists say are ecologically damaging.—
Stephanie Hanes,
Christian Science Monitor,
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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Still, critics argue that enforcement without addiction treatment or shelter options often just moves the problem around without solving it.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxhole. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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