bivouac
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They also allege he started out two hours too late and had failed to take "enough emergency bivouac equipment".
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.
From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2023
The whole population was busy all night, and the streets are now like a bivouac with sleeping men.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2021
And now comes the coronavirus, which has prompted people to bivouac in their homes, theaters to put in place social-distancing restrictions and studios to postpone most theatrical releases through the end of April.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2020
As I crouched inside my bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund, spindrift avalanches hissed down from the wall above and washed over me like surf, slowly burying my ledge.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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