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as in alcazar
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Recent Examples of casbah
The face-offs that started with a break-in at Wick’s house have since traveled to antique weapons stores and Casablanca casbahs; New York City tunnels, bridges, harbors, and public libraries; and European museums and churches, with no civilians ever getting caught in the crossfire.
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Vulture, 25 Mar. 2023
La Muralla Roja, designed in 1968 and completed in 1973, in the coastal city of Calpe, reimagined the North African casbah as a bright pink assemblage of walls and stairways as if arranged by M.C. Escher.
—New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
The records company’s founder Neil Bogart channeled the movie Casablanca with a disco touch, depicting a desert casbah invitation to the exotic city.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 28 Aug. 2021
She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.
—Washington Post, 9 July 2021
The community’s salmon-pink palette was suggested by the rosy sandstone walls, and its hilltop clubhouse, introduced by a Middle Eastern-style water stair, was placed to overlook the villas like a casbah surveying so many riads.
—Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
Vulture, 25 Mar. 2023
La Muralla Roja, designed in 1968 and completed in 1973, in the coastal city of Calpe, reimagined the North African casbah as a bright pink assemblage of walls and stairways as if arranged by M.C. Escher.
—New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
The records company’s founder Neil Bogart channeled the movie Casablanca with a disco touch, depicting a desert casbah invitation to the exotic city.
—Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 28 Aug. 2021
She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.
—Washington Post, 9 July 2021
The community’s salmon-pink palette was suggested by the rosy sandstone walls, and its hilltop clubhouse, introduced by a Middle Eastern-style water stair, was placed to overlook the villas like a casbah surveying so many riads.
—Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for casbah
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One of the original blockhouses overlooks the canal, while the old town is filled with art galleries and craft stories.Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
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Nearby, several of his men sat in the shade of a small blockhouse, holding automatic weapons.Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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In fact, in many ways it was made even more difficult because Ferguson is playing someone who doesn’t know how to swim; after a lifetime in a bunker, Juliette has never spent this much time underwater.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2024
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Yes, there are several that feature singing and dancing, but none of those take place in a lavish underground bunker occupied by a wealthy family 25 years after Earth’s environment has become uninhabitable.Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
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One immediate result of those changes was that Dignity Health Sports Park became a fortress again.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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The coming-of-age story follows the adventures of a young girl born into a band of robbers set in and around a fortress in medieval Scandinavia.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
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Crews also built an amphitheater on the fort’s 70,000 square meter backlot, while the water tanks at Malta Film Studios — also managed by Screen Malta, which can assist with the country’s 40% cash rebate — were used for the movie’s epic naval battles.Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Nov. 2024
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The council was already majority Democrat, but Hernandez adds to the progressive fort held down by Councilmembers Laura Pastor and Betty Guardado.Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Casbah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casbah. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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