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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
trench .
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Examples
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The trenchlike walls of the narrow gully gave them some protection from the cross-bows, but as he crouched there and studied the attackers, Ariakas realized they had walked into a well-planned ambush.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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The Queen turns its attention from the doors to Newt as the little girl crawls into a system of trenchlike service channels which cross the deck.
Fail-Safe, &c. Hook, Sidney 1964
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The hollow in which they had taken refuge was delved in the side of a low hill, at some little height above a long trenchlike valley that lay between it and the outer buttresses of the mountains.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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We left the little Mairie, entered our machines and slid out swiftly for the last miles, climbed and curved over the final hill and suddenly looked down on a deep, trenchlike valley marching from east to west and carrying the Paris-Verdun-Metz Railroad, no longer available for traffic.
They Shall Not Pass 1907
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To address the issue, IBM hundreds, or even thousands of processor cores. has designed a trenchlike, It's like multicore on fertility pills. microscopic irrigation system Intel recently hinted at this future by showing for CPUs.
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