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Then, as the credits sequence continues through the creative team, things get more ominous: Monkeys assemble together, climbing the parapets, even as someone tries to hold them off (?) with a spider.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025 -
And to allay the fears of brownstone-dwellers: A cornice is not a parapet, so most brownstones don’t actually have parapets.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
9 Oct. 2024
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The 18th-century ramparts encircling the city are free to climb and boast dramatic ocean views.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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Lunch salads from the organic garden and thali suppers are served in surprising nooks: in the garden, under a lush canopy of vines, or on a rounded rampart.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Dec. 2023
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A little under an hour northeast, off I-69 in Anderson, is Mounds State Park, home to 10 earthworks built by prehistoric Native Americans known as the Adena-Hopewell people.—
Holly V. Hays,
The Indianapolis Star,
28 Mar. 2024
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Archaeologists similarly used a drone to uncover the eroded remains of a large pre-Columbian earthworks buried beneath a field in southeastern Kansas.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
8 Jan. 2025
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Amid the rapid change in the 800 and 400 free events, now the fans await how long Katie Ledecky will hold her fort in the 1500.—
Paras J. Haji,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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But after some years, the cesspool got bigger, and our fort got smaller, and eventually the cesspool must have looked inviting.—
Willy Staley,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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This fortress comes as Buffett struggles to find his next big investment target.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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Not even Martin Short’s lady friend and her fortress of Oscar statuettes are immune to the chaos Kate McKinnon’s paranormal sketches can unleash on your psyche.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, there are a variety of low-cost measures such as mines and fortifications that would help to make the conquest of Ukraine more difficult, and Ukraine’s own defense industrial base is well positioned to produce many of these domestically with Western support.—
Emma Ashford,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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The fortifications and trench lines here are a part of nearly 600-mile-long defensive system holding Russia back from the heartland of Ukraine.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
2 Jan. 2025
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One more guard will be patrolling the battlements at the top, but getting past him is just a matter of timing.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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This isn’t a conscious effort to shore up the southern battlements?—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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Germany’s status as a bulwark against populism will likely be determined not Sunday, but in the years to come.—
Mark Sappenfield,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Feb. 2025
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On a national level, enshrining community as a civic value and way of life must serve as a local bulwark against natural disaster and larger political forces.—
Rachel Kraus,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Breastwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breastwork. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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