fort
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Chase proves more clever in turning Maya’s harmless couch fort into a claustrophobic labyrinth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
One couple spent $1.3 million and the better part of a decade turning a 200-year-old fort on England’s coast into their seaside vacation home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Flushed and sweating, 31-year-old Annisa Enggracia Fidel runs back and forth to defend her fort from invaders -- hundreds of fellow adults all beating the blues by playing a nostalgic Indonesian children's game.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
From a tactical standpoint, the fort is unlikely to deter Hezbollah’s new crop of attack drones, which rely on fiber-optic cables and are impervious to jamming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Master Percy says we will build a fort at Point Comfort, about thirty miles downriver from James Town, near where the river meets the Chesapeake Bay.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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“We’re still building forts, we’re just doing it at a large scale,” Josh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Even if the country was never home to the coastal forts from which the trafficking of African people was organised, many enslaved people passed through it on the way to the New World.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The region included extensive networks of forts, roads, and towns linked to the wider Roman Empire, facilitating movement across Europe, north Africa, and beyond.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026
Most of the known Roman remains in Wales are from military camps and forts, while grandiose estates like this are less commonly found.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
They’d been best friends from an early age, spending hours together building forts out of cushions and blankets in their Annandale living room.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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