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emplace

[em-plays] / ɛmˈpleɪs /


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“We simply will not allow Iran to emplace more mines.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

In Kempe’s view, Khrushchev’s success with Berlin emboldened him to emplace nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

For cases like this the system will have a range of watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.

From Economist ● Aug. 12, 2010

But, the Pentagon said, "it is impossible to avoid all damage to civilian areas, especially when the North Vietnamese deliberately emplace" military targets in populated areas.

From Time Magazine Archive

If an enemy sovereign was slain, as apparently happened in Mutal, the conquerors often didn’t emplace a new one; kings were divine, and thus by definition irreplaceable.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"Their magnetic fabrics help us determine whether deformation occurred before, during, or after the rocks were emplaced."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

The clock for the supposed Title 42 Armageddon was ticking down as I then crossed the bridge back to El Paso, where more barriers of razor wire had only recently been emplaced.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023

Usually that would mean the nuclear device had been emplaced and the tunnel packed to contain the blast.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

The emplaced silt and sand is clearly growing again but it's impossible right now for anyone to say if or when another slide might occur.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2020

The Apollo astronauts emplaced in several locales on the Moon special mirrors called laser retrore- flectors.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Drilling the repository and emplacing the waste only causes a 14-foot disturbed zone around the waste.

From Forbes ● Jan. 1, 2014

That fear was buttressed by the fact that seven Soviet divisions already were digging in along the West German border and emplacing tactical missiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Russians, then in the process of emplacing their "Galosh"* ABM system around Moscow and Leningrad, said they would think about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Brent Scowcroft, which had nevertheless favored emplacing a limited number of MX missiles while the Midgetman was being developed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together they walked across the dewy fields till an officer of the battery flashed his electric pocket lamp in their faces, as he stepped from among his men busy emplacing the soixante-quinze for action.

From The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer




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