| NOUN | act | trench warfare | a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win |
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| act | trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other |
| Meaning | A struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win. | |
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| Example | "the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare" | |
| Broader | war, warfare | An active struggle between competing entities |
| Meaning | A type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other. | |
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| Example | "instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare" | |
| Broader | combat, armed combat | An engagement fought between two military forces |
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