citadel
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What could possibly be gained by shuttering a national citadel for creative excellence?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
She is the princess, and this is the castle she’ll be locked in, an indomitable beast of a citadel fittingly titled the Tower Hotel.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is a literal citadel with a natural, crystal-blue moat surrounding it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Fifteen people were injured when two trains crashed head-on Tuesday near the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru's top tourist attraction, police and train operators said.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
A grand moon drifted, and the wings of the citadel cut the sky in two: light above, dark below.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
The clashes turned what had been sanctuaries for the students at the core of the movement into scenes that evoked medieval citadels under siege.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
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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