evacuation
Example Sentences
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Drones have created no-man’s-lands of terror, pushing forces away from conventional tactics to fiber-optic systems that are resistant to jamming and robot evacuations.
The evacuation order was unprecedented in scale, encompassing a 6-square-mile, densely populated residential area with hundreds of thousands of people.
From Los Angeles Times
"This is a huge undertaking," he said, describing it as many times bigger than the much-criticised evacuation of Afghanistan in 2021.
From BBC
The defence ministry said on Thursday that the warship would "offer protection and aerial defence" and "support any evacuation of civilians".
From Barron's
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem said it is “working closely with Washington to support American citizens in the region” but did not mention arranging evacuations.
From Salon
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