redoubt
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That battle resulted in SDF fighters leaving Aleppo, abandoning a small redoubt in one of Syria’s largest cities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
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
At the installation — a cliff-side redoubt overlooking vast deforested areas and topped with a gigantic transmitter — Wenjie quickly learns the truth.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024
Washington state could become its own time island, a sort of chronological redoubt.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023
He identified himself, begged them to give him refuge in that house which during his nights as a pariah he had remembered as the last redoubt of safety left for him in life.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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