: warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed-wire entanglements
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Recent Examples on the WebCall it trench warfare: inches can be won, but at terrible cost. Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022 The political trench warfare helped cost the party control of the House and exiled Pelosi from the speakership until her return nearly a decade later.Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021 Unfortunately, Washington, D.C., has become the equivalent of trench warfare with each side firing daily rounds of mortars and occasionally conducting a full assault.BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022 The nature of trench warfare led to high rates of facial injuries. Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022 Consensus on a compromise may come someday but only after years of trench warfare in the states.The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022 With the arrival of Russian reinforcements to the region, fighters here expect the familiar rhythm that has defined years of trench warfare to become dramatically more active.Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022 Instead the cyberwar has been something closer to Internet trench warfare: a grinding conflict of relentless, if sometimes unsophisticated attacks that have taken casualties but had limited impact on the course of the fight. Dustin Volz, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2022 In the political trench warfare that has substituted for advice and consent in the Senate, the game is to avoid giving ammunition to the enemy, and, at the end of the process, to count the votes. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 See More