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embattlement

[em-bat-l-muhnt] / ɛmˈbæt l mənt /




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More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

As an evangelical myself, for a long time I mostly embraced the narrative of embattlement.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2020

I had taken a similar survey a few miles down the valley at theNewtonmore club, which, as though sharing a feeling of embattlement, has reciprocal membership with Kingussie.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

In New Jersey, Lieberman said, that misery only intensified the usual, everyday slighting from New Yorkers, Philadelphians and others — what Lieberman pinpoints as New Jersey’s constant state of embattlement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020

Peyton glanced around him at this compact feminine embattlement.

From Susy, a story of the Plains by Harte, Bret




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