fortress

Wall Street Journal reporter Lindsay Ellis chronicles his odyssey trying to penetrate the fortress of today’s no-hire job market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Those who don’t have a job are locked out of the growing economy as if it were a fortress, leaving them puzzled by the headlines of low unemployment and an accelerating GDP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

"We're taking the Bastille," one demonstrator shouted in Marseille as masked protesters rammed the door of the mayor's offices with security barriers, in reference to the 1789 storming of a fortress during the French Revolution.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Boasting Georgian and Victorian architecture and overlooked by the Medieval fortress Castle Rushen, concerns have been raised over a severe decline in the number shops in Castletown's centre.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The city felt like a fortress, huge and unfriendly.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Its landscape is dotted with ruins of 19th-century fortresses and munitions dumps, from a time when Japan was waging war on China and Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

She travelled to Cape Coast Castle, one of the many coastal fortresses that had been run by the British, and where enslaved people were held before enduring the brutal "Middle Passage" to the Americas.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River, separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

To love a Scorpio, then, is to fiercely protect their softness with the same shadowy ardor that they use to construct their inner adamantine fortresses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

I yanked the laces out of both, so the floppy tongues fell forward like drawbridges coming down out of beat-up, leather, no-named fortresses.

From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds