embattle
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Those raids have further threatened a health care system in the embattle territory that is struggling to cope with the fallout from the war.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
She feared he would vent plain speech that would cut Mr. Feuerstein's sensitive soul and embattle his dignity and pride against his love.
From The Fortune Hunter by David Graham Phillips
If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to thecourt of guard: the night Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
The ‘licentia crenellare’ of the middle ages was the sovereign’s permission to his nobles to embattle or fortify their mansions.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
At the moment, however, the president is embattled.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Acme’s success is the latest humiliation for embattled Warner Bros.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mr. James captures the actors’ sense of embattled defiance amid a Jamaica he portrays as increasingly unhinged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Now baseball’s best owner is suddenly its most embattled owner, and Dodgers fans should be afraid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Oh! she could have lingered there forever! and hardly did she know what it was to draw any but sighs of bliss till she saw the towers of Paris embattling the horizon.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
It has been supposed that the embattling of an army was first learned by observing the close order of the flight of these birds.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blame-worthy?
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
