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Fort Knox

NOUN
treasury
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bank coffer exchequer
STRONG
archive bursar bursary cache chest damper depository exchange gallery hoard museum register repository safe storage store storehouse strongbox vault
WEAK
treasure house
Antonyms
STRONG
debt

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The best teams in NBA history, it’s no surprise, are net rating monsters, combining cutthroat scoring attacks with defenses as solid as Fort Knox.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

A working gold toilet seems a much better use of bullion than, say, making it into bars and then just having it sit, useless, in vaults in Fort Knox.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 1, 2025

Andrew Friedman realized this when he emptied Fort Knox during the offseason.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2025

But getting a hint from Clarke is like breaking into Fort Knox with flashing lights on your head.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2023

If they were for storing cotton, as Haas surmises, they would have been, in this textile-mad society, an emblem of state power and wealth, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann