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emplace

[em-pleys] / ɛmˈpleɪs /


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“We simply will not allow Iran to emplace more mines.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

In Kempe’s view, Khrushchev’s success with Berlin emboldened him to emplace nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962.

From New York Times Jun. 10, 2011

For cases like this the system will have a range of watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.

From Economist Aug. 12, 2010

But, the Pentagon said, "it is impossible to avoid all damage to civilian areas, especially when the North Vietnamese deliberately emplace" military targets in populated areas.

From Time Magazine Archive

If an enemy sovereign was slain, as apparently happened in Mutal, the conquerors often didn’t emplace a new one; kings were divine, and thus by definition irreplaceable.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Their results show the carbonatites were emplaced between 830 and 820 million years ago, during a key phase of continental rifting before Rodinia fully broke apart.

From Science Daily Jan. 23, 2026

Usually that would mean the nuclear device had been emplaced and the tunnel packed to contain the blast.

From Washington Times Aug. 24, 2022

Wherever we couldn't patrol was precisely where the next one would be emplaced.

From Salon May 25, 2020

The emplaced silt and sand is clearly growing again but it's impossible right now for anyone to say if or when another slide might occur.

From BBC Mar. 15, 2020

Alarmed by Massasoit’s sudden entrance, the Europeans withdrew to the hill on the opposite bank, where they had emplaced their few cannons behind a half-finished stockade.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Drilling the repository and emplacing the waste only causes a 14-foot disturbed zone around the waste.

From Forbes Jan. 1, 2014

The Russians, then in the process of emplacing their "Galosh"* ABM system around Moscow and Leningrad, said they would think about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Brent Scowcroft, which had nevertheless favored emplacing a limited number of MX missiles while the Midgetman was being developed.

From Time Magazine Archive

That fear was buttressed by the fact that seven Soviet divisions already were digging in along the West German border and emplacing tactical missiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

The committee met to consider the question of cessation of the nuclear arms race and associated matters, such as the prohibition of emplacing nuclear arms or other destructive weapons on the seabed.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut




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