as in stronghold
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight
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Recent Examples of fortress
The new map showed a much larger outer that circled around the inner fortress.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
The fortress is made up of two distinct areas: a core inner fortress that researchers say show signs of year-round residential use and a more sprawling outer area that may have been used more occasionally by roaming pastoral groups.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
Geographically, the United States is both an economic hub and a military fortress.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Google is now leveraging AI to transform its walled garden into a walled fortress, further consolidating its dominance.
—Marc McCollum, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
The fortress is made up of two distinct areas: a core inner fortress that researchers say show signs of year-round residential use and a more sprawling outer area that may have been used more occasionally by roaming pastoral groups.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
Geographically, the United States is both an economic hub and a military fortress.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Google is now leveraging AI to transform its walled garden into a walled fortress, further consolidating its dominance.
—Marc McCollum, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortress
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The tunnels were discovered by experts from the Polytechnic University of Milan, who used ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners to map the 15th-century stronghold’s subterranean structures.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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All that changed during two months in the fall of 2024, when Israel wiped out much of Hezbollah's leadership, invaded its military in the south, and battered its strongholds in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley.—
Daniel Markind,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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On the one hand, the country is an economic citadel, packed with resources and blessed by ocean borders that shield it from invasion while connecting it to global trade.—
Michael Beckley,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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Today, this citadel in the clouds faces a different kind of conquest: nearly a million people each year are treading sacred ground at this New Wonder of the World.—
Paul Jebara,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Dec. 2024
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These ingredients are whole foods instead of specific vitamins and minerals that are used in fortification.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
22 Jan. 2025
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Walk the length of the city walls, the most intact fortification of its kind in England.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Jan. 2025
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This explains why so many millennials are still alone: they’re imprisoned in their own sky castles.—
Alex Baia,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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But its most famous residence is the French Renaissance Biltmore Estate, which was George Vanderbilt’s 250-room castle and is considered the largest home in America.—
Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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The American cowboy is an aspirational bastion of masculinity, and as Costner proves, of manners.—
Caroline Reilly,
Robb Report,
15 Jan. 2025
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What could be more traditional than Third Round Thursday, that bastion of everything pure about English football?—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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It’s all set against the stunning backdrop of the original keep, built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders on top of a third-century Roman fort.—
Jamie Carter,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Bulgarian started once in the first half of the season, but became a mainstay down the home straight, holding the fort in front as Ampadu slotted in behind.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortress. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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