encirclement

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Both sides will try encirclements, military analysts say.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2022

No big encirclements seemed to be going on.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the initial 40 hours of the battle, small regular-army units faced the Syrian advance, fighting their way out of encirclements and pulling back to safety.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans drive wedges and bend them into encirclements, hoping to cut off the enemy and destroy him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before us stretched a large space enclosed by four encirclements of barbed wire containing the tents and houses which formed the temporary homes of the prisoners-of-war.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.