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Recent Examples of windbreak
If there’s nowhere to go nearby, build a windbreak or snow cave for protection.
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Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
Many of them are also involved in regenerative practices, such as working to restore terraces and create windbreaks to help the soil retain water and enhance biodiversity.
—Tom Watkins, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
During the California Gold Rush of the 1800s, they were planted for windbreaks, fuel and timber.
—Alix Soliman, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
The windbreak technique is called drafting, in which domestiques cut the wind ahead of the top rider.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
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Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
Many of them are also involved in regenerative practices, such as working to restore terraces and create windbreaks to help the soil retain water and enhance biodiversity.
—Tom Watkins, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
During the California Gold Rush of the 1800s, they were planted for windbreaks, fuel and timber.
—Alix Soliman, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
The windbreak technique is called drafting, in which domestiques cut the wind ahead of the top rider.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for windbreak
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Instead, the family only made it as far as Mexico City and were stuck, in late September, living in a tent in plaza crowded with dozens of other tents and lean-tos, where people from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Angola and other countries were all struggling to keep out the rain.Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2024
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For example, Tatiana Trouvé’s ongoing installation Between Sky and Earth—the former woodland camp of a being called The Guardian, who left behind bronze objects like books, shoes, and a lean-to—originated elements of several newer works.Kate Dwyer, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent additions to the grounds include The Ralston Family Collections Center, a Mission Gate and Lunette, and replicas of an 18-pounder cannon and a palisade, all part of the $550 million Alamo Plan.Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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The discovery of palisades suggests the settlement was fortified with thousands of spiked planks used as defensive barricades, but archaeologists are unsure why it was needed by villagers.Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
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Compared to the little sheds that were over there for the last several years, huge improvement.John Meyer, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2024
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The theater, Gold's Gym and a few shops are housed in a building that was once a shed for clinker, a key cement ingredient, according to the San Antonio Express-News.Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
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There is also a string of water parks lavishly-themed to a desert fort, an oasis and Aztec temples.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
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The city dismantled the fort in 2016 after significant pressure from the California Coastal Commission.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
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With no end to the war in sight and lacking effective air defense, Kharkiv gradually has turned from a fortress of resilience into a fortress of solitude.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The only representations they were allowed were through mass media or images of migrants on canoes collapsing in front of European fortresses.Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
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Instead, it will likely be decided in the historic Democratic Party strongholds of New York and California, where more than a dozen of the closest races are under way.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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State significance Delaware is a Democratic stronghold, having voted for the party’s candidate in every election since 1992.ABC NEWS, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Each makes it to the gates of the castle before the prince notices blood gushing everywhere.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Life magazine ran a story on the castle back in 1948.Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Walls and towers made of stone and rammed earth rose from strategic ridge lines, making a formidable redoubt.ByAndrew Lawler, science.org, 23 Oct. 2024
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The whereabouts of his own family was unknown, but thought to appear briefly in surveillance footage recovered earlier this year from an underground redoubt Israeli forces said was located beneath a cemetery.Karl Vick, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Windbreak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbreak. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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