as in stronghold
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
a massive stone redoubt at the entrance of the bay guarded the city
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Recent Examples of redoubt
The whereabouts of his own family was unknown, but thought to appear briefly in surveillance footage recovered earlier this year from an underground redoubt Israeli forces said was located beneath a cemetery.
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Karl Vick, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
On the left, the failure of cultural power to produce political change tends to lead to a doubling down on the cultural side, so that wholesome college campuses can seem the last redoubt of Red Guard attitudes, though not, to be sure, of Red Guard authority.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The rebels were on the verge of routing Hadi’s forces in Marib governorate: the last government redoubt in Yemen’s north and the site of major oil and gas facilities.
—Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2022
Fortunately, there is still one redoubt of the necktie in Manhattan.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
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Karl Vick, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
On the left, the failure of cultural power to produce political change tends to lead to a doubling down on the cultural side, so that wholesome college campuses can seem the last redoubt of Red Guard attitudes, though not, to be sure, of Red Guard authority.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The rebels were on the verge of routing Hadi’s forces in Marib governorate: the last government redoubt in Yemen’s north and the site of major oil and gas facilities.
—Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2022
Fortunately, there is still one redoubt of the necktie in Manhattan.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for redoubt
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Poilievre, however, maintains a stronghold in the Prairies and Alberta, where Conservative support remains dominant.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Israel's military is also intensifying an offensive against a Palestinian militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, deploying tanks there for the first time in more than two decades.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
23 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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Brian Roberts The only mogul left standing fully erect, NBC remains a bastion of anti-Trumpism (Rachel Maddow is back on the air five nights a week!).—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Feb. 2025
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More importantly, the documentary slyly highlights the hypocrisy now embedded in the DNA of a onetime bastion of rebelliousness becoming more and more mainstream over the years.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 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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Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dominated by the enormous Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and a citadel, which sits along the 2.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead, the site awed even the Aztecs, who wondered what vanished civilization could have created such a monumental city.—
John Newton,
AFAR Media,
24 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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The storybook castle was built more than 700 years ago by the knights of Chasteignier de la Roche-Posay.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
26 Feb. 2025
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In winter 1524-1525, the peasants were able to capture castles and monasteries without much bloodshed.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Redoubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redoubt. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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