as in stronghold
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight
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Recent Examples of fortress
Even during the lean years, Arrowhead remained a fortress, its stands filled with red-and-gold faithful.
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Monty Davis, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
This fortress comes as Buffett struggles to find his next big investment target.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
Not even Martin Short’s lady friend and her fortress of Oscar statuettes are immune to the chaos Kate McKinnon’s paranormal sketches can unleash on your psyche.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
In the 1980s, the Islamist organization Hamas became a rising force among Palestinians in Gaza, eventually succeeding in taking over the enclave and turning it into a fortress of terror.
—Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
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Monty Davis, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
This fortress comes as Buffett struggles to find his next big investment target.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025
Not even Martin Short’s lady friend and her fortress of Oscar statuettes are immune to the chaos Kate McKinnon’s paranormal sketches can unleash on your psyche.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
In the 1980s, the Islamist organization Hamas became a rising force among Palestinians in Gaza, eventually succeeding in taking over the enclave and turning it into a fortress of terror.
—Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortress
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They are armed with automatic weapons – largely smuggled from the United States – and move unhindered through the narrow, winding alleys of their neighborhood strongholds in Port-au-Prince, which national and multinational police forces are often unable to navigate in their bulky armored vehicles.—
Linnea Fehrm,
The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Mar. 2025
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Around the fortress city of Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian stronghold in eastern Ukraine, Russian assaults are down 80 percent compared to their recent peak in mid-January, according to Ukrainian analysis group DeepState.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dominated by the enormous Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and a citadel, which sits along the 2.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead, the site awed even the Aztecs, who wondered what vanished civilization could have created such a monumental city.—
John Newton,
AFAR Media,
24 Jan. 2025
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It was built to protect Florida and the Atlantic trade route, and is now the oldest masonry fortification on the continent, interpreting more than 450 years of cultural intersections.—
Food Drink Life,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Once an important feudal stronghold deep in the Japanese Alps, Matsumoto is known today for its towering castle; arguably the most stunning fortification in the entire country with its black-onyx trim and turquoise moat filled with curious koi.—
Brandon Presser,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2025
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In this sprawling Scottish castle, Real Housewives and Drag Race queens can unveil their most glamorous looks, while those who compete on shows like Survivor and Big Brother get to show a whole new side of themselves (i.e., a side that gets to shower and look in a mirror every day).—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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For the show, the duo built an office space embedded with silicone paintings full of chivalric symbols: the mirror, the castle, the knight, the enchanted woods.—
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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When every day brings some new, head-spinning event on the world stage, when polarization seems to define our national discourse, now is a good time to stop and give thanks for the bastion of solace in the heart of New York City — Central Park.—
Betsy Smith,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Associated Press journalists saw a handful of tanks move Sunday into Jenin, long a bastion of armed struggle against Israel.—
Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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Conclusions: John Means will not likely be a pitching project fort Guardians pitching coach Carl Willis and his staff.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Twenty five years ago, one of her descendants, Prince Richard Holkar converted his home in the 18th-century sandstone fort into a hotel.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortress. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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