watchtower

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

A watchtower on a hilltop, still painted in the colours of the Iranian flag, overlooks the base.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

There’s still a watchtower overlooking everything that we do.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023

The wooden watchtower was the tallest thing this side of the mountains, rising twenty feet above the biggest sentinels and soldier pines in the surrounding woods.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The property has been reported to feature a Portuguese Colonial-style villa with a large party room, along with watchtowers and 12 cannons that give the retreat a decidedly fortresslike appearance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

New wooden fortifications topped the old stone walls on the outskirts of town, and watchtowers had been built along the shore, but the war had not touched Oxscini’s forested lands yet.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee