encirclement
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The Nazis also used maps as propaganda, “by suggesting, for example, the encirclement of Germany and conveying its vulnerability to attack from neighboring states.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
This frequently happens in sieges, such as Germany's encirclement of Leningrad during World War II.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024
General Syrsky said he had ordered the retreat “in order to avoid encirclement and preserve the lives and health of servicemen.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Satellite images show the encirclement of the Indigenous Land Igarapé Lage, a green rectangle amid deforestation.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
Tidings of victory of course; and of one especial victory which they had felt peculiarly pleasant and ermutigend, the defeat and complete encirclement, that is, of the small British Expeditionary Force.
From The Red Cross Barge by Marie Belloc Lowndes
