citadel
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For 15 years, the former Communist official shaped the capital in his image, ordering it to be rebuilt as a marble citadel complete with a towering gold statue of himself.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Lamberth called Strike 3 a “copyright troll” and threw out its lawsuit against an unidentified internet user for having treated his court “not as a citadel of justice, but as an ATM.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Celtic could finish off their stadium and make it a near 80,000 citadel, one of the continent's best, but they haven't done it.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
In the waterfront building known as the red citadel -- once the seat of power -- visitors journey through a history that includes ancient art, Greek and Roman antiquities and Ottoman-era weapons and jewellery.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
It was a nameless horror of the citadel and all it contained.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Public buildings such as bathhouses were quite large, as were the protective city walls and citadels.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Lebanon has five other sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, most of them citadels and ancient temples.
From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023
I think the retreat from the Lost Cause has also meant a kind of raising of new citadels around the idea of the nation.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2021
Ralph Peters, described cities of today as “the post-modern equivalent of jungles and mountains — citadels of the dispossessed and irreconcilable.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
Now a few affluent evangelicals are directing their attention and money at some of the tallest citadels of the secular elite: Ivy League universities.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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