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The phrase "a berm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a raised barrier or bank of earth, often used in landscaping, construction, or environmental contexts.
Example: "The construction site was surrounded by a berm to prevent soil erosion and manage water runoff."
Alternatives: "an embankment" or "a mound."
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They're on their bellies behind a berm, firing at a mosque in the distance.
At a berm where the flowery tributes dwindle with time, a famous presence diminishes.
In one astounding scene, Mr. Chauvel takes cover behind a berm with Libyan rebels.
The neighborhood was sandwiched between the towering yellow cliff and a berm.
They ultimately approved the use of only one barrier, called a berm, to be paid for by BP.
There was also a waiting killer, who had stationed himself like a sniper on a berm above the firefighters.
Major League Soccer officials talk of building a berm — read "vast mound of dirt" — and placing the stadium atop that.
The suicide bomber drove out from behind a berm and evaded gunfire to reach the post, the army said.
We ran behind a berm, which Army bulldozers had created the previous day, to a house pocked with bullet holes.
A berm not much larger than a baseball diamond is all that remains of Fort Kentucky, one of the earthen strongholds built here during the war.
In the darkness, marksmen crouch in tall reeds near a berm alongside the railroad tracks, watching spots where militants have been laying bombs.
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