fortress
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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
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 city felt like a fortress, huge and unfriendly.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
She travelled to Cape Coast Castle, one of the many coastal fortresses that had been run by the British, and where enslaved people were held before enduring the brutal "Middle Passage" to the Americas.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
Old fortresses, adobe-walled and crumbling, topped the crags.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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