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 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
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 Lower, Mark Antony
Insurance companies are exposed to the embattled private-credit industry in more ways than one, according to a new report by Clearwater Analytics, a portfolio-management software provider.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The embattled leader has held on so far, however, and on Saturday declared a state of emergency that allows him to deploy the army and outlaw demonstrations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Tuesday’s arrest follows a slew of legal issues for the embattled comedian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
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
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
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 Melville, Herman
Then in embattling his Legions, he places the Saints here, and the Angels there, as if one were the main Battle of Infantry, and the other the Wings of Cavalry.
From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Defoe, Daniel
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
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
