encamp
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Brooke Keast, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections, said 19 networks and 120 reporters are expected to encamp outside Lovelock Correctional Center, where he is serving time for robbery and kidnapping convictions in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2017
Every summer, as part of a Landsbjörg initiative called Safe Travel, rescue teams encamp there for a week at a time to patrol the area and be on hand for the inevitable mishaps.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
They also attract squatters, who sometimes encamp beneath covered patios, he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2011
The best source of that, experts say, may be for him to encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I hear that in future we are always to encamp on a hill, or at any rate, as far as possible, in a defensible position.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Every four years, news organizations commit millions of dollars to the care and feeding of the journalistic army — 15,000 strong this time around — that encamps in the two host cities.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2012
When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That is Dauphiness's posture while Friedrich encamps at Lutzen:—let impatient human nature fix these three places for itself, and hasten to the catastrophe of wretched Dauphiness.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas
A Tatar horde called Sirtof likewise encamps on the lands of the Kalmucks, within sixty miles of Astrakhan, on the road to Kisliar.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
Exeter had Woodburn yellow-carded for a deliberate knock-on five minutes later as Leicester encamped themselves deep in the visitors' red zone.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
One executive still firmly encamped at Apple is Cook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
They listened to their encamped students and agreed to some of their demands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
At the UW, out of around 50,000 undergraduates and graduate students, only about 200 people are encamped, with an undetermined share of them being outsiders, not students.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
The fact that his people were already in arms and the still more ominous fact that the Rutulian Army had encamped before his gates were too much for King Latinus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Horses the valleys are tramping on, Sleek from the Sassenach manger; Creaghts the hills are encamping on, Empty the bawns of the stranger!
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
Eight hundred and forty strong, the regiment occupied a large space of ground, encamping in five lines, two companies in one line, or, as was called, regimental divisions.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
On the 30th of October the troops again moved forward, marching seven miles to Warrenton Junction and encamping near Bealton Station.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton
When he was ready to proceed on his journey, he set out with the same nonchalance as characterized his encamping so near to the scene of his late restraint.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
The Regiment encamping on a hill near a battery, arms were stacked, the men prepared their evening meal.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton