laager

Definition of laagernext
South African

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Noun
  • Because these positions are often held by relatively small Ukrainian garrisons due to the challenges of resupply, Russian forces that reach the town in sufficient numbers are likely to capture it.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Furthermore, clinical skills are degrading at garrison hospitals.
    Robert Krasner, STAT, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In 2015, he was charged in Amador County in connection with a strip poker game at a youth camp, ultimately pleading no contest two years later to providing alcohol to a minor.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
  • Some of them have been training together for nearly two months because Aguirre arranged a monthlong training camp ahead of the World Cup.
    Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Was a wedding at that hulking fortress in Midtown Manhattan gauche?
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • The footage opens with fortress-like coastal imagery before moving into large-scale period sets, suggesting the film will have the epic scope of Hugo’s story while grounding it in a raw visual language.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Crews are wanting to learn more about the earthen fortification, known as the redoubt, which is essentially a dirt fort colonial soldiers built by hand overnight before fighting began.
    Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
  • Contrast that with Europe, ostensibly a redoubt of strong climate policy.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Washington and his men had left the fort heading west toward the sounds of gunfire.
    Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
  • Background and conception Roughs Tower, or HM Fort Roughs, was originally built in 1942, one in a series of large sea forts built in the North Sea by Great Britain during World War II.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The captain had done a brief stint in OK town cantonment after getting his commission three and a half years ago and knew that the vehicle registration plates were the only exciting thing about the city.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Along with a half-dozen other leading-edge American space outfits including Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Starlab Space, SpaceX has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to develop orbital outposts that could host NASA and Allied astronauts through the next decades.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Finley’s Fiction, an outpost of the one on Shelter Island, will have kids’ story hour on Saturday mornings and author events; in July, Kate Doerge and Katharine Holabird.
    Nancy Kane, Curbed, 25 June 2026
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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