Thesaurus results for FOXHOLE

foxhole

noun

Definition of foxhole

as in bunker

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Recent Examples of foxhole Or maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole. — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025 Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are too deep in their respective partisan foxholes to cut any deal. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2025 Imagine sitting in a cafe or a foxhole or a government office in Ukraine on Friday, watching those first scenes in Anchorage. — Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025 Instead infantry soldiers squeeze into foxholes in groups of two or three. — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for foxhole

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Noun

Escalating insurance premiums and rising bunker fuel expenses are placing additional operational pressure on tanker fleets.

— , CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
About the shot in the trailer where Garfield’s Altman goes into a bunker with a bunch of guns?

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of bunker

Noun

The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors’ 4th District race pits outgoing State Board of Equalization member Ted Gaines against first-time candidate Gina Posey.

— Haley Parsley October 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But none of those cowards should be in a pit lane in the foreseeable future.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of pit

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Grant Taylor headed back to the dugout after the eighth inning, having just completed his third scoreless frame during Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Saturday against the Cleveland Guardians.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
At least Skubal got to drink his water in the relative cool of the dugout between innings.

— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of dugout

Noun

As the chief explained it, the man was drilling a hole in the limestone mine when a rock fell in.

— Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
The tensions have been a setback for Lee, who favors engagement with North Korea and has tempered his rhetoric toward the North even as public anger grows over the mine blasts.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of mine

Noun

The attacks and the air raid alerts that accompany them have severely disrupted life in the city, forcing millions to constantly seek shelter and paralyzing the capital’s businesses and transport networks.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
If able to scale, this technique could be used to build shelters and other structures for future long-term human missions to the planet.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

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