attritional
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As England struggled during the Ashes, Stokes' batting became increasingly attritional, as if the captain was demonstrating the fight he wanted from his team-mates.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Or will 2026 be another year of grim attritional war, with Moscow and Kyiv treating the U.S. mediation effort as another battlefront?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Military experts don’t expect the pattern of attritional fighting to change this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
British researcher Jade McGlynn, who studies the Russia-Ukraine war at King's College London, predicted a "bloody, attritional winter" of fighting.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
The attritional effect of repeated raids may be very great.
From Sound Military Decision by Kalbfus, Edward C. (Edward Clifford)
