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Recent Examples of embrasure
One room holds an embrasure, complete with a cannon, for those who can’t make the 2.5-mile round-trip hike to the fort itself.
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Erin L. Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot.
—William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embrasure
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The Honda sustained damage to its front passenger side, and the Outback had an indent to its front driver-side bumper.—
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Just a few years ago, ADL found that 30 antisemitic indents nationwide were tied to Kanye’s 2022 antisemitic rants.—
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Each of these works has a crenulated indentation and a line descending it (or drip as the case may be).—
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There are slight indentations along the side of the blade that prevent slices of food from clinging to the knife.—
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Though Boise does not allow camping, the city has given priority to increasing access to housing, updating its zoning code to increase housing density, and building permanent supportive housing facilities for chronically homeless residents.—
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The bill’s sponsors — Denver Democratic Reps. Steven Woodrow and Javier Mabrey — said the measure was intended to ensure housing providers compete with each other to lower prices, rather than collude to keep rents higher.—
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Then the pandemic sparked a moving frenzy, putting a serious dent in that number.—
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If 200,000 Gold Cards are sold at $5 million each, the resulting $1 trillion could make a meaningful dent in the national debt.—
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And they weren't allowed to get their office plants out of their cubicles.—
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The consultant, Glastonbury architectural firm SLAM, will base its designs for 450 Columbus on the average state worker spending three days a week in the office, taking into account that some spend large blocks of time in the field and that cubicles can be shared.—
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Last Thursday, parts of the shrine started to go back to Canada following a repatriation ceremony in New York.—
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The city is also often visited for its temples, shrines, palaces and other historical structures.—
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Unlike the definition of indenture servitude, in which someone works for a single employer without pay, visa holders may change employers and are paid.—
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Under the terms of his original indenture of trust, Mr. Duke established four giving priorities — child and family well-being, health care, higher education and rural United Methodist churches and communities.—
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“Embrasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embrasure. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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