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
There was a knee-high berm of snow directly in front of him and then a trail where patrolling guards had tramped it down.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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