as in fortress
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
a series of forts along the frontier
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Recent Examples of fort
Homes and buildings will thus resemble small forts more than ever before in California.
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
This patch—corresponding to modern-day Bertie County, less than 100 miles inland from Roanoke Island—was found to conceal a red-and-blue symbol resembling a fort.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
In the background, club president Lupe Murillo—one of the references for women looking to break into soccer management—has held the fort for over a decade.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
And so that comes with a lot of trauma, a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of unresolved feelings that men have to carry and still be able to hold the fort down.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
This patch—corresponding to modern-day Bertie County, less than 100 miles inland from Roanoke Island—was found to conceal a red-and-blue symbol resembling a fort.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
In the background, club president Lupe Murillo—one of the references for women looking to break into soccer management—has held the fort for over a decade.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
And so that comes with a lot of trauma, a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of unresolved feelings that men have to carry and still be able to hold the fort down.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fort
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This fortress comes as Buffett struggles to find his next big investment target.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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Not even Martin Short’s lady friend and her fortress of Oscar statuettes are immune to the chaos Kate McKinnon’s paranormal sketches can unleash on your psyche.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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Poilievre, however, maintains a stronghold in the Prairies and Alberta, where Conservative support remains dominant.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Israel's military is also intensifying an offensive against a Palestinian militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, deploying tanks there for the first time in more than two decades.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, there are a variety of low-cost measures such as mines and fortifications that would help to make the conquest of Ukraine more difficult, and Ukraine’s own defense industrial base is well positioned to produce many of these domestically with Western support.—
Emma Ashford,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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The fortifications and trench lines here are a part of nearly 600-mile-long defensive system holding Russia back from the heartland of Ukraine.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
2 Jan. 2025
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Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dominated by the enormous Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and a citadel, which sits along the 2.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead, the site awed even the Aztecs, who wondered what vanished civilization could have created such a monumental city.—
John Newton,
AFAR Media,
24 Jan. 2025
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The storybook castle was built more than 700 years ago by the knights of Chasteignier de la Roche-Posay.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
26 Feb. 2025
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Eastern Europe Travelers are also showing more interest in Eastern Europe, especially Romania, Poland, and Hungary, where fairytale-esque towns and castles unfold.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Perhaps halfway up to the crest which forms the ramparts of the Mule Shoe was a jutting bastion of orange-colored rock.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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But despite housing the fest for four decades, Utah isn’t a bastion of free speech, with the state being one of the first to implement a statewide ban for more than a dozen books in libraries and classrooms.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Fort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fort. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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