redoubt

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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

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

These days, his Beverly Hills redoubt is in disrepair, while an expired Russian passport and fear of possible arrest prevent him from traveling internationally.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin