fortress
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They thought they could build a fortress around quarterback Justin Herbert, providing him an airtight pocket to pick apart defenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
From the street, it looks like a two-story fortress under construction, guarded by a crash-damaged chain link fence and a row of yellow-orange Caltrans barricades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Alcazaba, the complex's historic fortress and oldest section, was evacuated after the earthquake, while access to the Nasrid Palaces was suspended, it added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Reform's plan called "operation fortress" has been endorsed by "former senior members of our armed forces", Yusuf told BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Seen from this perspective, with the stone tower rising up just beyond the dormitory, the buildings gave the impression of a fortress rather than a school.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Its landscape is dotted with ruins of 19th-century fortresses and munitions dumps, from a time when Japan was waging war on China and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Fish, the 34-year-old councilmember, happens to be a renter in a block-spanning “luxury” apartment complex: “One of those fortresses that everyone makes fun of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
This means researchers simply don't know what is buried in the sites, which are mainly mounds, fortresses, early roadside inns known as caravanserais and canal systems.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
Old fortresses, adobe-walled and crumbling, topped the crags.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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