fortress
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Cage plays Roy, a gifted con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose tics, phobias and elaborate rituals have turned his immaculate home into a fortress against the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Prosecutors believe the attacker met Lopez by chance on the steep path to the fortress.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The concern isn’t about tech heavyweights—Meta, Microsoft, Google—with fortress balance sheets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
In the meantime, the tower's 400,000-euro outdoor LED screen has been turned off for months after online memes re-imagined it as the baleful eye of Sauron's fortress of Barad-dur from "The Lord of the Rings".
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The dwarfs shrugged, and believed themselves to be extremely clever in their fortress by the sea.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
Fish, the 34-year-old councilmember, happens to be a renter in a block-spanning “luxury” apartment complex: “One of those fortresses that everyone makes fun of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
The fortresses around the turquoise waters of Singapore’s only sand beaches are now abandoned, but a string of British officer’s barracks in the island’s lush interior have been put to new use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Saturday's main event took place after pre-sunrise rituals, and hundreds of youngsters used the pool in front of one of Gondar's fortresses to get baptised.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
Then and earlier, therefore, it would have been safer for her not to be hated by her people than to have had the fortresses.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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