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  • noun Plural form of phalanx.

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Examples

  • America the French philosopher's naïve, social regimen of reducing the world of men to simple units called phalanxes, whose barrack-like routine should insure plenty, equality, and happiness.

    Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897

  • You may kill them by bushelfuls, and their phalanxes are apparently undiminished.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • Today, we're all dependent on distant computers all over again - namely the phalanxes of potent servers that power the Web.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Today, we're all dependent on distant computers all over again - namely the phalanxes of potent servers that power the Web.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Today, we're all dependent on distant computers all over again - namely the phalanxes of potent servers that power the Web.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Today, we're all dependent on distant computers all over again - namely the phalanxes of potent servers that power the Web.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • How confident do you have to be as a country to put a word like 'phalanxes' in your anthem?

    When did you last think of your nose? and what does phallanx mean? Minzo 2006

  • How confident do you have to be as a country to put a word like 'phalanxes' in your anthem?

    Archive 2006-06-01 Minzo 2006

  • In addition to the idea of a conspiratorial revolution, Babeuf, fascinated by military matters, began to develop the idea of people's guerilla warfare: of the revolution being formed in separate "phalanxes" by people whose permanent occupation would be making revolution - whom Lenin would later call

    LewRockwell.com 2009

  • "phalanxes" of monks were wont to play upon the hopes and fears of the high-born, that Francis, if honestly desirous of consulting the glory of

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

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