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  • s  (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together
    in serried ranks

  • The general was armed with the modern military's deadliest weapon, the PowerPoint-presentation-serried ranks of bar charts marching toward victory, which provided camouflage for .
  • Taking a studio in Manhattan, Chryssa, as she came to be known professionally, produced Plexiglas, metal and neon sculptures and boxes with serried ranks and repetitions of forms .
  • On the seaside flatlands, Army warehouses stretch for serried miles.
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  • Dan Snow in Telegraph.co.uk
    British infantry already had a reputation for lining up in serried ranks to deliver huge amounts of musketry,says Dan. "But Wellesley did it better than it had ever been done before."
  • Fiona Hyslop in BBC News
    A source close to Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "We're not going to see serried ranks of children in gym halls being asked: 'Turn over your papers now.' That's not the direction of travel at all."

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