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  • noun Plural form of minefield.

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Examples

  • Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.

    The Forever War: Summary and book reviews of The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. 2008

  • Why provide improved seeds for farmers whose fields were mined, or vaccinate animals which graze in minefields?

    International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Nobel Lecture 1998

  • Hezbollah’s problem with Israel stems from Israel’s 18 year occupation from 1982 to 2000, Israel’s retention of Shabaa farms border strip, approximately half a million Israeli mines carefully laid in minefields all over south Lebanon which regularly blow the legs off of children, and various Israeli border incursions ranging from overflights, air raids, violations of airspace, ground border incursions, potshots, etc. etc.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Dog That Hasn’t Barked 2009

  • I figured ejecting in those winds over the minefields was a death sentence.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • The trip through the minefields is a major source of risk for my forecast, and it could be manifested in higher paths for interest rates and inflation.

    The World in 2030 2007

  • The trip through the minefields is a major source of risk for my forecast, and it could be manifested in higher paths for interest rates and inflation.

    The World in 2030 2007

  • The attackers flanking force is hard to deal with, but the minefields are a great advantage also.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Cromwell MkI 2006

  • The attackers flanking force is hard to deal with, but the minefields are a great advantage also.

    Pottery Rd 25/03/06 Cromwell MkI 2006

  • GQ magazine article in 1997 that quoted him telling off-color jokes, Woods has encountered no minefields, which is rather remarkable in the age of high technology and zero privacy.

    FanHouse 2009

  • GQ magazine article in 1997 that quoted him telling off-color jokes, Woods has encountered no minefields, which is rather remarkable in the age of high technology and zero privacy.

    FanHouse 2009

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