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  • noun Plural form of beachhead.

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Examples

  • Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican official in charge of Mexican-U. S. relations has even called consulates "beachheads".

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles 2009

  • So you need to develop niche markets and create what he called "beachheads" to carry you until your main market catches up.

    unknown title 2009

  • Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican official in charge of Mexican-U. S. relations has even called consulates "beachheads".

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles 2009

  • Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican official in charge of Mexican-U. S. relations has even called consulates "beachheads".

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles 2009

  • "beachheads" blocking the flow have a devastating effect on the reader's subconscious ability to enjoy the story.

    Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center 2009

  • "beachheads" blocking the flow have a devastating effect on the reader's subconscious ability to enjoy the story.

    Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center 2009

  • The people who lined the beaches of New Jersey where the first ships were scheduled to arrive, saw not anything NASA might have dreamed up, but huge vessels, the size of aircraft carriers, which the old men in the crowd recognized as being pretty much like the box-shaped landing craft that carried Allied troops to the Normandy beachheads during the Second World War.

    Sunday SF: Derrick Bell’s “The Space Traders” « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • Kasich and Walker are trying to establish reform beachheads that will build broader support over time.

    The Buckeye Union Lesson 2011

  • Nor was the proto-United States an English-language domain; Spain, France, Holland and even Sweden established beachheads; Pennsylvania was filled with Germans; and slaves from a dozen African cultures were scattered from Salem to St. Augustine.

    Discovering America Anew Charles C. Mann 2011

  • In the latest sign of this, UDR just established beachheads in Boston and New York with big deals in those markets.

    REIT Rides Prosperity Wave Dawn Wotapka 2011

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