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redoubt

[ri-dout] / rɪˈdaʊt /








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No hot line summons this super-cop from a hidden redoubt.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.

From BBC • May 31, 2024

Washington state could become its own time island, a sort of chronological redoubt.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

Raynar Northbrook perched atop the isolated redoubt, keeping his lone vigil by the river.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner