attritional
Example Sentences
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The risk now is of a long, attritional permacrisis that will lurch in and out of outright conflict.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Rai has finally been rewarded after a patient and precise performance at an attritional Aronimink.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
The most likely is a fifth year of grinding attritional warfare, while talks go round in circles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 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
The attritional effect of repeated raids may be very great.
From Sound Military Decision by Edward C. (Edward Clifford) Kalbfus
