fortress
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Four months later, Meta’s Zuckerberg shelled out a record-shattering $170 million to purchase the in-progress fortress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"Today the fortress does not have gates. It's a digital fortress, and it will be safer than ever before," he told Gibraltar television station GBC, adding police would boost patrols of the frontier.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Held each year on 14 July, the national holiday marks the storming of the Bastille fortress in 1789, a key event from the French Revolution.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The altitude has helped turn the Azteca into a fortress for El Tri, which has lost just two competitive matches there since the stadium opened in 1966—and none in the past decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
One day they woke as usual, but they did not wake in their fortress.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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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
Begun in the 15th century, the 25,000-mile network undulated over the Andes and west coast of South America, replete with stone paths, rope bridges, staircases, fortresses, inns and warehouses to serve relays of royal runners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Saturday's main event took place after pre-sunrise rituals, and hundreds of youngsters used the pool in front of one of Gondar's fortresses to get baptised.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
All around stood their massive fortresses, packed in so close they almost touched one another.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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