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fortress

[fawr-tris] / ˈfɔr trɪs /


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The list also includes five castles in south Lebanon's Jabal Amel area, among them the Crusader-era Beaufort fortress, which Israeli forces captured in May.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

Cage plays Roy, a gifted con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose tics, phobias and elaborate rituals have turned his immaculate home into a fortress against the world.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Prosecutors believe the attacker met Lopez by chance on the steep path to the fortress.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Kusman, 86, has dedicated his life to the fortress of Cavustepe in eastern Turkey, and to learning the language of the vanished kingdom of Urartu, to honour its forgotten gods and rulers.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Caught in the sweep of our headlights, Zanmi Lasante appeared dramatically on a hill, like a mountainside fortress.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

The fortresses around the turquoise waters of Singapore’s only sand beaches are now abandoned, but a string of British officer’s barracks in the island’s lush interior have been put to new use.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

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

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

Some have built fortresses; others have torn them down and destroyed them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli




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