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Minutes earlier, the players paraded around Azteca Stadium — traditionally an impenetrable fortress — to applaud El Tri fans with tears in their eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

The altitude has helped turn the Azteca into a fortress for El Tri, which has lost just two competitive matches there since the stadium opened in 1966—and none in the past decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Kostyantynivka is one of several heavily-fortified towns that make up Ukraine's "fortress belt" in the Donetsk region, most of which is occupied by Russia.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

"A fortress North America," he said, "is in everyone's interest."

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

I locked the doors, yanked the curtains closed, shuttered the blinds, constructed a modern-day fortress before crashing in my room.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

Begun in the 15th century, the 25,000-mile network undulated over the Andes and west coast of South America, replete with stone paths, rope bridges, staircases, fortresses, inns and warehouses to serve relays of royal runners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

These sites included large Roman cities, military fortresses, and small rural towns.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

And, latest of all, those returned who had passed into Mordor and destroyed the fortresses in the north of the land.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien