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redoubt

noun as in citadel

noun as in fort/fortress

noun as in fortress

noun as in stronghold

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If there’s still a redoubt in the GOP where outside pressure from right-wing media can’t get the job done, it’s secret-ballot popularity contests in the Senate.

From Slate

Although U.S. intelligence-gathering in Afghanistan is hardly perfect, the U.S. today possesses a far better understanding of the country than it did during the early 1990s, when the Taliban first controlled the country and gave Osama bin Laden a redoubt to plan operations.

Leaks about panicked conversations between Biden’s own delegates—truly his last redoubt—began to surface in the media.

From Slate

Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.

From BBC

Laissez faire has long been a redoubt of the political right, but Hamilton’s attack on laissez faire is not a particularly left-wing document.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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