Fort Knox

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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

A former head of Fujitsu UK has admitted that he told former Post Office boss, Paula Vennells, that the Horizon IT system was like "Fort Knox".

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2024

Lamphere agreed, though the request was akin to asking, "How about the key to the vault at Fort Knox?"

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau