emplace
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of emplace
First recorded in 1860–65; back formation from emplacement
Example Sentences
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“We simply will not allow Iran to emplace more mines.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
In Kempe’s view, Khrushchev’s success with Berlin emboldened him to emplace nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011
For cases like this the system will have a range of watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.
From Economist ● Aug. 12, 2010
A smooth sea enabled us to get more troops ashore and to emplace some artillery.
From Time Magazine Archive
If an enemy sovereign was slain, as apparently happened in Mutal, the conquerors often didn’t emplace a new one; kings were divine, and thus by definition irreplaceable.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
"Their magnetic fabrics help us determine whether deformation occurred before, during, or after the rocks were emplaced."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The clock for the supposed Title 42 Armageddon was ticking down as I then crossed the bridge back to El Paso, where more barriers of razor wire had only recently been emplaced.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
Usually that would mean the nuclear device had been emplaced and the tunnel packed to contain the blast.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
The emplaced silt and sand is clearly growing again but it's impossible right now for anyone to say if or when another slide might occur.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2020
The Apollo astronauts emplaced in several locales on the Moon special mirrors called laser retrore- flectors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Drilling the repository and emplacing the waste only causes a 14-foot disturbed zone around the waste.
From Forbes ● Jan. 1, 2014
General Brent Scowcroft, which had nevertheless favored emplacing a limited number of MX missiles while the Midgetman was being developed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Russians, then in the process of emplacing their "Galosh"* ABM system around Moscow and Leningrad, said they would think about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
That fear was buttressed by the fact that seven Soviet divisions already were digging in along the West German border and emplacing tactical missiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Think of the last place in the world for emplacing a gun and one may be there; think of the most likely place and one may be there.
From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer
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