emplace
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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
An additional 150 miles of concertina wire will be emplaced by the end of March, he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2019
"If I were there back when this material was being emplaced and altered, and I had my summer house, this is where I would drill to get good drinking water," he jokes.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2014
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
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 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
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
There is very much to be said both for and against the policy of so emplacing the guns.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
