berm

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Satellite images show that troops started to construct a massive berm - a raised sand barrier - around the perimeter of el-Fasher, sealing off access routes and blocking aid.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

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 group dissects the photo’s cinematic, informal composition, in which Pildas aims down from a berm, the neglected buildings behind the eclectic crew shrinking into the horizon, merging with the sand.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Guarded by sheer walls on three sides, its soldiers had only to watch the fourth side, across which was an earthen berm.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann