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earthworks

noun

plural of earthwork

as in breastworks

a raised bank or wall made of soil prehistoric earthworks

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Recent Examples of earthworks In 1880, a local history of Pickaway County expressed regret over the obliteration of its earthworks. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 The scientists used cutting-edge airborne laser scanning technology and found hundreds of previously unknown earthworks. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 10 Aug. 2026 As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026 More than 200 of these earthworks have been preserved at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026 From 2016, project teams were flying weekly missions and creating a Google Earth-consistent aerial record of earthworks at centimeter resolution and accuracy. — Mike Winn, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 This is around the same time that the first earthworks at Stonehenge were built, while the famous stones weren’t put in place until 500 years later. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 It's thought that people would have celebrated the solstice at the site around the same time as the very first earthworks were built at Stonehenge. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 The famous earthworks artist, with help from his team and volunteers, unveiled the piece to Lawrence and the Algerian community on Saturday to a crowd of over 800. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026

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Noun

Water began to flood the streets of Baja California Sur on Monday hours after residents boarded up homes and set up embankments as Hurricane Polo bore down on the peninsula Monday, threatening high winds, floods and mudslides.

— Megan Janetsky, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
How levees work Levees are earthen embankments positioned parallel to a river that effectively raise the height of the banks of the river to prevent overflow when the river swells.

— Kaleigh Yost, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of embankments

Noun

To the left and right are the high ramparts of Sleeping Bear Dunes, the distant wedge that is South Manitou Island and unbelievably blue water.

— Mike Norton, Midwest Living, 26 Sep. 2026
Join rangers and living historians of the Fort McHenry Guard for the morning flag change and help raise the Star-Spangled Banner o’er the ramparts of the historic star fort.

— The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of ramparts

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Looking through small microscopes implanted in the mice’s heads, Patel’s team zoomed in on a particular subset of brain cells, called somatostatin neurons, as the animals reacted to the fox urine scent.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Zavodovski is home to both chinstraps and macaroni penguins, which have distinctive yellow feather plumes on their heads.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of heads

Noun

Previously, Russia has hit apartment blocks, supermarket warehouses, gas stations and data centers, among other targets, in an escalation of attacks.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Two blocks of six films each, running roughly an hour apiece, will precede the awards and the jury announcement.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of blocks

Noun

The Scott River flows into the Klamath downstream from where the dams stood.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Public Works is preparing for 24-hour operations, monitoring low-water crossings, dams, roadways, debris and traffic signals while staging barricades for potential road closures.

— Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of dams

Noun

Historical records indicate that dikes were deliberately breached during a military conflict, allowing the swollen Yellow River to inundate the city.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
Like many inland dikes, the barrier in agricultural fields near the small town of Waddinxveen, east of The Hague, is made of peat that needs to be damp to be strong enough to hold back water.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of dikes

Noun

At 18 feet, low-lying rural areas outside the levees begin to flood.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
By the Army Corps’ estimate, by the early 2000s, 86% of Fort Worth’s levees were no longer tall enough to protect against that kind of biblical flooding.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of levees

Noun

In Kyiv, for example, residents used to face a few drone and missile barrages a week—disruptive, but not enough to stop city residents from going about their lives.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
Stunned at first by his opponent’s aggressiveness and the onslaught of personal attacks, Ted trains himself to withstand the barrages and to respond in kind.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

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