redoubt
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But I live in fear of the moment when the conversation takes that dreaded turn toward the last redoubt of small talk: What do you do?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
No hot line summons this super-cop from a hidden redoubt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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