guardhouse

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Recent Examples of guardhouse Zoom in: The new businesses are planned to open in the hilltop Spanish colonial revival-style homes of naval officers and the former guardhouse. Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024 The movie studio backers built a forlorn guardhouse on 40 acres in South Windsor, but nothing else. Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024 Officials also plan to extend the airport’s buffer zone, currently being guarded by members of the Armed Forces in the makeshift guardhouses made from shipping containers. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024 Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses. Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010 See All Example Sentences for guardhouse
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Noun
  • When the city of Wuhan urgently needed mobile isolation wards to curb the spread of Covid-19, Haier leveraged their open digital supply chain platform to deliver in record time.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Floria’s every move is that of a benign fury: her confident stride through the ward, the ritual of her muscular applications of hand sanitizer countless times a day, her practiced handling and application of catheters, needles and syringes.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The new glasshouse floats ethereally above a quiet reflecting pool.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Driving the news: The project adds glasshouses, office space and plants while relocating and enhancing existing structures, including its 1906 restaurant.
    Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
  • Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
Noun
  • That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Now as then, letters from the gulags tell of eternal winters, cold cells, and the longing for the first signs of greenery to appear amid the thaw.
    Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 14 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Surveillance video later shared online shows a man in a dark-colored Nike sweatshirt flashing a small smirk before snatching the cage and dashing out the door.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • In the quiet moments on a 75-degree day at Chicago Cubs camp, Ryne Sandberg leaned against the cage taking in batting practice.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • What do the Wolves have in the tank two nights after a thriling but draining comeback win like that?
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In a video describing the plant’s operation, trucks pull into the center and septic sludge and grease are pumped from the vehicles and treated in a series of tanks, which separate solids from liquids.
    Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
    Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024

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“Guardhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardhouse. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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