watchtower
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It is effectively a watchtower or control tower for all your data.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
His career paths are hunter, forager or watchtower guard, but he seems more like the product of a progressive Montessori school, even with his dad urging him to cackle at shredded deer intestines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
It was followed by the watchtower and an electricity pole.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
The checkpoint gate is now bolted shut, eyed by armed Israeli guards in a watchtower nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
We reach the watchtower, and the sentries stationed there turn and walk away, as if following a silent order.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
But new watchtowers along that border have pushed escapees to unconventional and riskier routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
But with high fences, watchtowers and armed guards, "there was no way to leave", until he was released with 5,400 other Chinese nationals since the February crackdown.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
They stayed for years in those camps, treated more as unwanted refugees in France than former soldiers, surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers, while the French government organized their relocations across the country.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
The “Terminator” actor and former California governor viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains of gas chambers that endure as evidence of the German extermination of Jews and others during World War II.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
The other two girls looked as uneasy as Hannah felt, out in the open, with the watchtowers spaced every hundred feet along the barbed wire fences staring down at them.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
