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Several of those provisions have long been considered nonstarters for Iran, which sees its missile stockade and regional alliances as central to national security.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Rejecting a First Amendment challenge, the court upheld Private Wilson’s conviction and sentence to four months in the stockade, a bad-conduct discharge, and other penalties.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

It flashed in the moonlight, spinning lazily over and over and fell into the stockade.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

It needs foreign aid to replenish its stockades and help even the odds.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

In the later stages of Cahokia, the ruling class surrounded themselves with fortified wooden stockades, including a two-mile long wall that enclosed Monks Mound.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022

This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.

From Fox News ● Oct. 28, 2021

They built neither stockades nor trenches around their camps.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

I lingered until Michaela stockaded me in upturned chairs and dragged back to the flat.

From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2018

Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seated just outside the stockaded inclosure is a European, clad in the broad-brimmed hat, doublet, loose breeches, and buff riding boots of a bygone time.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

Knights and barons possess fortified dwellings, and exercise unbounded power within their stockaded estates—stockaded against bushmen, forest savages, against bands of gipsies, and against wild cattle and horses.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pioneers had been sent up, and we commenced intrenching and stockading the hill round the huts, which were in number about twenty.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp

The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood.

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Maha Nemiow had moved directly upon Prome; advancing slowly, and constantly stockading himself.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend

Twenty-four machines, captured from the Saracens by St. Lewis in his first partial success on the Nile, afforded material for stockading his whole camp.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule