Fort Knox

Example Sentences

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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

If it takes an audit of Fort Knox to verify the gold, so be it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 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

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