fortress
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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
It has been a logistics and supply hub for the Ukrainian military for much of the war and is part of the so-called "fortress belt" which troops are fighting to keep hold of.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
"A museum cannot be a fortress," Hollein says.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
They thought they could build a fortress around quarterback Justin Herbert, providing him an airtight pocket to pick apart defenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I hear you,” she said, and drew her legs in still closer to her, as a fortress draws up its bridge before the siege.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
It’s hard to find better musical evocations of rocky crags, ruined fortresses, or martial joie de combat than Mendelssohn’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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
Fish, the 34-year-old councilmember, happens to be a renter in a block-spanning “luxury” apartment complex: “One of those fortresses that everyone makes fun of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
Priests carried tabots into one of the fortresses in Gondar, where they will be kept until the end of the festivities.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
And I shall reproach any prince who, trusting in fortresses, considers the hatred of the people to be of little importance.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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