citadel
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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
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
The crew locked themselves inside a fortified citadel while the attackers took control of the ship.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
They could bring the whole citadel back to life and move it anywhere they wanted—though Sarai didn’t imagine there was anywhere in the world that would want them.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Lebanon has five other sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, most of them citadels and ancient temples.
From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023
As they moved southward along the continent’s coast, they established citadels on land leased from local rulers, like the fortress of Elmina, located on the coast of present-day Ghana.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
Beowulf Boritt’s ingeniously transformative set conjures a terrain of makeshift scrapheap citadels.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 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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