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

It is early days but Andoni Iraola will know that if his time at Liverpool is going to be a success, then he must make Anfield a fortress again.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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

The voice of doubt lapped against her, persistent and unabating, but she built her fortress up higher.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 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

Then and earlier, therefore, it would have been safer for her not to be hated by her people than to have had the fortresses.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli