laager

South African

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Noun
  • In 2020, an Iranian missile attack on a US garrison left more than 100 soldiers with traumatic brain injuries.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
  • Medieval Skeleton Reveals What Life Was Like With a Disability in the Middle Ages A Snapshot of Medieval Life Grave inside the garrison.
    Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • The competition between Grayson Loftis (Duke), Conner Harrell (North Carolina), and Zack Wilcke (NW Mississippi) has continued through the summer and will retake center stage as camp begins.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 29 July 2025
  • Those mattresses will be returned to the rental company at the end of training camp.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Meander through the famous blue cobblestone streets of Old San Juan and visit the 16th-century Spanish forts, El Morro and Castillo San Cristobal, the largest fortress built in the Americas.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025
  • The fortress was carefully crated to make the feline feel safe, but also to keep him entertained as his dad put on his favorite cat show on YouTube.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • But the Assembly Public Safety Committee—the redoubt of progressive opposition to crime bills—quietly blocked it.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 1 June 2025
  • Early on June 17, patriot soldiers built a redoubt, or temporary fortification, on top of Breed’s Hill, located next to Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
    Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • One highlight was an elephant ride in Amber Palace, a prominent fort and notable tourist attraction in Jaipur, and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
    Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 27 July 2025
  • Tour the visitor center and Archaeological Resource Center to see displays and artifacts from the fort.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The school bus was transporting students from various areas to a military-run school in a high-security cantonment, according to officials.
    Zia ur-Rehman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • In the military cantonment, a formidable army stood at the ready, awaiting its lords’ commands.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Reykjavik is a quirky, colorful and surprisingly cosmopolitan outpost on the edge of the Arctic that offers much more than a launchpad to Iceland’s volcanic landscapes.
    New York Times, New York Times, 24 July 2025
  • But those who are lucky enough to score a reservation (or find themselves with a Nairobi layover while visiting other Safari Collection outposts) receive access to The Retreat at Giraffe Manor.
    DeMarco Williams, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Cuellar won reelection by more than five points—but Trump won the former Democratic stronghold by about seven points.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
  • Volkswagen has also kept its foot on Tesla’s throat in the American brand’s BEV stronghold, outselling it by 135,427 BEVS so far this year to Tesla’s 109,262.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
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“Laager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laager. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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