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bivouac

[biv-oo-ak, biv-wak] / ˈbɪv uˌæk, ˈbɪv wæk /


NOUN
encampment
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NOUN
trailer park
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VERB
encamp
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They also allege he started out two hours too late and had failed to take "enough emergency bivouac equipment".

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Kovacs said lifting Dickey will likely take several days, and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so that he and rescue teams can rest.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 3, 2023

After getting orders to establish a bivouac site near Airfield 1, Willhite said he then knew the command had come down to settle in for the long haul.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2020

At dark, word came forward to go into bivouac.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

She has taken the worn tapestry of the war novel and turned it inside out, exposing the original colors and throwing the battles and bivouacs into stark relief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

A rational leader would call off the attack, send the troops back to their bivouacs, and send envoys to the negotiating tables, where many other games can be played.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2022

This vast camp is now entirely abandoned, its installations reaching far into the dense foliage: bivouacs, tents and sturdier structures in what little dappled sunlight penetrates the roof of leaves overhead.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2016

After stopping to rest at the final of five bivouacs established at intervals along the way, Mr. Westhauser was lifted to safety through the final, narrow shaft to the surface of the mountain.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2014

In English, that meant: To all units: Japanese are booby-trapping personnel equipment, installations, and bivouacs.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Kamil Szymanski, the CEO of G2A Arena where scores of G.I.s have bivouacked, said his company is happy to do its part in difficult times and will “work tirelessly to support the 82nd Airborne Division.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Jawad and Shukria’s group had to spend a night bivouacked in the open, huddling together.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

Regime forces were bivouacked on the outskirts, and locals were afraid to talk.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

Kansas volunteers bivouacked in the East Room to protect Abraham Lincoln, and the president tested rifles on the grounds around the house.

From Time ● Aug. 2, 2017

The Romans bivouacked next to the strawberry fields, where they insisted on building their standard field camp.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

I knew the signs of a bivouacking militia and something less sinister.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017

We'd be entirely self-supported, schlepping all our own gear and bivouacking in the saddles between the peaks.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 10, 2015

Somehow they managed to keep moving until after dark, finally bivouacking on a thin ledge.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 14, 2015

On indie screens, Restrepo, the Sebastian Junger doc about bivouacking with an Army troop in Afghanistan, earned $30,453 on two screens, giving it the highest per-screen average of any new movie.

From Time ● Jun. 27, 2010

"I'm taking it to a girl bivouacking alone farther up the cañon."

From Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout by Robert Leighton




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