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fort

[fawrt, fohrt] / fɔrt, foʊrt /


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One couple spent $1.3 million and the better part of a decade turning a 200-year-old fort on England’s coast into their seaside vacation home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

They’d soon start building their presidio fort a few miles away, the twin foundations of Spain’s God and empire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Flushed and sweating, 31-year-old Annisa Enggracia Fidel runs back and forth to defend her fort from invaders -- hundreds of fellow adults all beating the blues by playing a nostalgic Indonesian children's game.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Would O'Neill, Desmond wondered, hold the fort for a few weeks while Celtic got their ducks in a row with a permanent successor.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

We make the fort bigger, giving it three new walls where the one wall fell down, and making it five-sided.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

As kids, we converted this mountain of boxes into forts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

The monuments are of all types, including prehistoric burial mounds, Roman forts, early Christian carved stones and industrial mills.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

“We’re still building forts, we’re just doing it at a large scale,” Josh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Stretching east to west from the North Sea to the Irish Sea, Hadrian's Wall featured a series of forts and towers placed at regular intervals.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

It had deep, concrete window wells perfect for making into forts.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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