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emplace

[em-pleys] / ɛmˈpleɪs /


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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

A smooth sea enabled us to get more troops ashore and to emplace some artillery.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The clock for the supposed Title 42 Armageddon was ticking down as I then crossed the bridge back to El Paso, where more barriers of razor wire had only recently been emplaced.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2023

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

From Washington Times Aug. 24, 2022

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

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 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

The Austrians had performed a brave and audacious feat in emplacing one of their batteries at a certain point, the fire from which threatened to make our position absolutely untenable.

From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds




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