watchtower
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It is effectively a watchtower or control tower for all your data.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
A watchtower on a hilltop, still painted in the colours of the Iranian flag, overlooks the base.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
“We are scared,” he said, looking up at the watchtower.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
My explorations took me from a top-down view on the 32nd floor of a luxury hotel to the faded blue upholstered seats of the Las Vegas Monorail to a dilapidated security watchtower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
We get to the top of the watchtower only to find more soldiers waiting.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
The property has been reported to feature a Portuguese Colonial-style villa with a large party room, along with watchtowers and 12 cannons that give the retreat a decidedly fortresslike appearance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
But new watchtowers along that border have pushed escapees to unconventional and riskier routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
But with high fences, watchtowers and armed guards, "there was no way to leave", until he was released with 5,400 other Chinese nationals since the February crackdown.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
Five years later, two men escaped from a maximum-security Wisconsin prison that once held Jeffrey Dahmer, fleeing early one morning when four of the facility’s five watchtowers were unmanned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
And the older girls curled their hair just so every day, and they walked giggling in their skirts through the rain and mud as soldiers with guns stood in the watchtowers.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
