Corps of Engineers
Americannoun
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The Army Corps of Engineers carried it onward to Wheeling on the Ohio River.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Army Corps of Engineers to release vital water supplies from the dam to make room for winter floods that didn’t come.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
“There’s a plan for this?” a young national security aide asks after a superior tells him to notify the Army Corps of Engineers to dig them out if a bomb hits the White House.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
Army Corps of Engineers to clear the debris, an early test of the group’s willingness to work together, said Sarah Korobkin, a board member who teaches law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
And here was the nimble Army Corps of Engineers planning to hold back 250 billion gallons of water with notoriously unstable glacial till.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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