embattlement
Example Sentences
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Filmed by the great Romanian cinematographer and frequent Loznitsa collaborator Oleg Mutu in long, patient takes that intensify each sequence’s brittle contrasts, “Donbass” coalesces into an unflinching dispatch from a state of embattlement both region-specific and 21st century-pervasive.
From Los Angeles Times
“I think that there’s something about the sort of sense of political embattlement that draws a lot of viewers to Fox in general. To me it would make it more likely that those people would follow it and engage with it more online,” Bauer said.
From The Guardian
Only the day before the Op-Ed was published, excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” added to the ever-accumulating picture of chaos, mendacity, fear, embattlement, and contempt for the President even within his senior staff.
From The New Yorker
That those rights are in a new phase of embattlement goes without saying.
From New York Times
By the time of Liberty’s financial embattlement, other education innovators had taken the idea much further — none more so than a man named John Sperling.
From New York Times
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