watchtower
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It is effectively a watchtower or control tower for all your data.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
A watchtower on a hilltop, still painted in the colours of the Iranian flag, overlooks the base.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
My explorations took me from a top-down view on the 32nd floor of a luxury hotel to the faded blue upholstered seats of the Las Vegas Monorail to a dilapidated security watchtower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
There’s still a watchtower overlooking everything that we do.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023
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
The festival will have 25 more entry lanes which organisers said would enable deeper searches of visitors' belongings, 25% more watchtowers manned 24-hours a day, and 50% increase in high-visibility security patrols.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2024
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
I never learned any prayers, so I wander away into the fields, beyond the gates and watchtowers, as far from the barracks and bodies as my atrophied muscles will carry me.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
