attritional
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Or will 2026 be another year of grim attritional war, with Moscow and Kyiv treating the U.S. mediation effort as another battlefront?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Military experts don’t expect the pattern of attritional fighting to change this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Launching his 20th Australian Open campaign, Monfils outlasted Sweeny, who is 15 years his junior, in an attritional first set.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
The two yellow cards marked an attritional and confrontational 40 minutes as England fly-half Ford kicked four penalties to Slade's two for Exeter.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
The attritional effect of repeated raids may be very great.
From Sound Military Decision by Kalbfus, Edward C. (Edward Clifford)
