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
He pursued his way over the craigs; through the valley, and across the river, to the cliffs which embattle the garden of Ellerslie.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
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 Phillips, David Graham
And Douglas found the forces that were to embattle him drawing up in line.
From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee
“Could the political parties ever be cleansed of corruption? What place would African Americans have in American society? Would Native Americans survive at all, and at what cost to their embattled cultures?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But Nanos has been embattled throughout the investigation, not just by criticism surrounding the Guthrie case.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Raj Bhakta was a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” an unsuccessful congressional candidate and an embattled whiskey entrepreneur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Since launching at the start of 2025, “The Pitt” has emerged as more than just a hyperrealistic depiction of an embattled American emergency department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Through the smoke we saw other launches put in from other brigs and sloops slipping toward the embattled docks.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The portly peltry of a goat; its horns embattling its effigy head; its mouth the nozzle; and its long beard flowed to its jet-black hoofs.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
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 Porter, Jane
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 Melville, Herman
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 Cowper, William
He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
