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garrison

[gar-uh-suhn] / ˈgær ə sən /


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Having just six weeks ago fled the garrison city of Kramatorsk in the east, under intense Russian pressure, she is not worried about the heatwave.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Strategic towns, including Kidal in the desert north, and Kati, a garrison town near the capital Bamako, were targeted in the April 25 and 26 offensive.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

The garrison at Al Tanf sits in southern Syria along the highway between Baghdad and Damascus.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

The storming of the Bastille reflected fear and miscalculation on both sides: Parisians feared its garrison and cannon would be used against them, while military officers felt vulnerable to mob attack.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

‘What think you of the garrison at Osgiliath?’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Those shown deploying in coastal areas, he said, were already stationed in garrisons nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

Since 2019, soldiers have shut down some smaller army bases and moved into larger, fortified garrisons known as "super camps" in an attempt to better resist militant attacks.

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

It has a major military base in N’Djamena and smaller garrisons in the north and east.

From BBC Oct. 4, 2024

Russia's military presence in Armenia includes garrisons in two locations and an airbase.

From Reuters Oct. 25, 2023

She could see flickering lights in the distance, indicating settlements or garrisons of soldiers or, maybe, Fort Mose.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

At any given time through the 1980s, nearly 300,000 U.S. forces would have been garrisoned in around 900 sites, ranging from airfields to communications outposts and housing complexes.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

A dramatic musical score—like something out of a Marvel movie—plays loudly over clips of officers entering the windows of the garrisoned building, climbing on their laddered megatruck, and breaking the locks to the doors.

From Slate May 4, 2024

When microbes try to invade our body through the nose or mouth, they have to get past the tonsils, lumps of tissue garrisoned by immune cells that help fight off the intruders.

From Science Magazine Oct. 31, 2023

And we went to the home community in western Ukraine where the brigade was garrisoned before the war, and where many of its families still live.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2023

Only three were now garrisoned, a fact that Mance Rayder knew as well as they did.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His father, a retired navy man, spent a year in the 1970s garrisoning Philippine-occupied Thitu Island.

From Washington Times May 2, 2023

I am not saying that garrisoning South Vietnam with ground troops would have made the war a sensible enterprise.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2021

One source, the Chandos Herald, says there were 300 men garrisoning the town.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2014

All have stepped up sea and air patrols as well as garrisoning isolated atolls and floating patrol bases.

From Reuters Oct. 1, 2012

Here the Canadians gathered in over 3,000 prisoners garrisoning the stronghold and 100 officers.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)




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