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embattlement

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em·bat·tle·ment  (m-btl-mnt, m-)
n.
See battlement.
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It's Oliver's "churn of the water as it begins to swirl and roil" and "the embattlement, the long falls plunging and steaming.
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By the assessment of his harshest critics, Kagan's latest statement on global politics, outlined in an extract in the New Republic magazine, is a recipe for further unilateral US embattlement and belligerence.
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