berm

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They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Between the outpost and the ruins rises a sand berm about two stories high and topped with barbed wire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The researchers observed a 22km berm, which formed a semicircle from the west to the north of the city.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

They have also installed thousands of sandbags, K-rails and compost filter socks — a type of berm — to keep dangerous debris from flowing into storm drains and out into the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

We sat upon the dead grass and ate our rations as we watched Will and John, who are the favorites of our company, engage in their antics by the berm.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson