fortress
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Wall Street Journal reporter Lindsay Ellis chronicles his odyssey trying to penetrate the fortress of today’s no-hire job market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Those who don’t have a job are locked out of the growing economy as if it were a fortress, leaving them puzzled by the headlines of low unemployment and an accelerating GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
From the street, it looks like a two-story fortress under construction, guarded by a crash-damaged chain link fence and a row of yellow-orange Caltrans barricades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
She said the site was turned into a Crusader fortress between the 12th and 13th centuries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
She tried to imagine a fortress like the Night Zoo, high mudbrick walls all around her mind.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
To love a Scorpio, then, is to fiercely protect their softness with the same shadowy ardor that they use to construct their inner adamantine fortresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
This means researchers simply don't know what is buried in the sites, which are mainly mounds, fortresses, early roadside inns known as caravanserais and canal systems.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
Here were the ruins of long-abandoned villages and fortresses, and the fruit and vegetable fields that supplied the city.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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