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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

And now comes the coronavirus, which has prompted people to bivouac in their homes, theaters to put in place social-distancing restrictions and studios to postpone most theatrical releases through the end of April.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2020

In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

He celebrates the joys of doing nothing, but skates, canoes, climbs the 6,000ft peaks behind his cabin, bivouacs on a cliff-ledge and walks 81 miles over three days pulling a sledge.

From The Guardian Jun. 1, 2013

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

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

Along with the rest of the cast and crew, Rapace’s family bivouacked in tents, in the middle of nowhere, then traveled to Stockholm for several days of shooting in a studio.

From New York Times May 27, 2012

Scores of Rai and Tamang porters from the low foothills—dressed in thin rags and flip-flops, they were working as load bearers for various expeditions—were bivouacked in caves and under boulders on the surrounding slopes.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

"It's exactly what one has read of in Juan Cordova's stories, to be bivouacking in a great forest, with a great fire, to keep away the jaguars."

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James




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