trenches
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Especially if they’ve spent an untold number of years in the comedy trenches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He gained a reputation for courage bordering on recklessness, ever-present in frontline trenches and personally leading expeditions to clear mines.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Polish and German soldiers worked for five weeks at the frontier to dig trenches, lay barbed wire and place long lines of concrete barriers known as "hedgehogs" across the landscape.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Now Scott Bessent finds himself on the other side of the foreign-exchange trenches as U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
When the Germans reached high ground behind the Aisne, they began to dig furiously, preparing fortified trenches that they would defend against Allied attacks for the next four years.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
