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What is a phalanx?

What is a phalanx? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
  2. (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
  3. (plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
  4. (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.
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We make our way slowly out of the field and along the side of a small country road, passing a phalanx of police officers dressed in riot gear.
The general snapped his fingers twice, and the soldiers formed up into a dense phalanx.
If you prefer the modern, industrialised phalanx of grey and fuscous brown, then I refer you to Eamon McCann in the Belfast Telegraph.
He was moved through the media scrum surrounded by a phalanx of Dallas police officers.
Closed fractures of the distal phalanx may require reduction but usually are minimally displaced and stable, and can be splinted.
He and his fatuous phalanx have made it clear that they're out to make certification much harder and decertification very much easier.

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