Occupy
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Soviet Union gained ground to secure the city of Leningrad... but suffered over 126,000 dead in the effort, with hundreds of thousands more wounded, many of them maimed for life, and failed to occupy the whole of Finland.
Source: Bittersweet Ending / Real Life
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Secure and Occupy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/occupy/secure
Occupy & Secure. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/occupy/secure>.
Secure or Occupy. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/occupy/secure.
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