front line
Example Sentences
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But even if the immediate standoff is resolved, the economic shock may linger — a reminder that in modern warfare, the battlefield doesn’t end at the front lines.
From Salon
The foreign ministry estimates that 252 Kenyans have been illegally conscripted to fight on the front line - a trend that began about six months ago and has also involved recruits from other African countries.
From BBC
During the Vietnam War, the embedded news media was allowed to report from the front lines.
From Salon
In Kamchatka, a peninsula located almost 4,500 miles from the front lines in Ukraine that hasn’t been struck by drones, the regional governor has appealed to Moscow to lift the restrictions.
To do that, they have taken more than 8,000 soil samples, many of them from fields still near the front line of the war.
From BBC
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