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Recent Examples of guardhouse
The movie studio backers built a forlorn guardhouse on 40 acres in South Windsor, but nothing else.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
Officials also plan to extend the airport’s buffer zone, currently being guarded by members of the Armed Forces in the makeshift guardhouses made from shipping containers.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses.
—Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
Altogether, the compound features a total of 12 bedrooms and a whopping 24 bathrooms split between a main house, a 5,000-square-foot guest penthouse, a caretaker’s cottage, and a guardhouse.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 June 2023
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
Officials also plan to extend the airport’s buffer zone, currently being guarded by members of the Armed Forces in the makeshift guardhouses made from shipping containers.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses.
—Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
Altogether, the compound features a total of 12 bedrooms and a whopping 24 bathrooms split between a main house, a 5,000-square-foot guest penthouse, a caretaker’s cottage, and a guardhouse.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardhouse
Noun
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The Damen stop was a particular priority for Burnett, longtime alderman for the ward.—
Sarah Freishtat,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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In reuniting Black families, the bureau hoped to prevent them from becoming wards of the state, dependents on government largesse.—
Robert Colby,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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The new glasshouse floats ethereally above a quiet reflecting pool.—
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airmail.news,
16 Nov. 2024
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Driving the news: The project adds glasshouses, office space and plants while relocating and enhancing existing structures, including its 1906 restaurant.—
Mike D'Onofrio,
Axios,
23 Oct. 2024
Noun
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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Now as then, letters from the gulags tell of eternal winters, cold cells, and the longing for the first signs of greenery to appear amid the thaw.—
Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
14 Jan. 2024
Noun
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Surveillance video later shared online shows a man in a dark-colored Nike sweatshirt flashing a small smirk before snatching the cage and dashing out the door.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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In the quiet moments on a 75-degree day at Chicago Cubs camp, Ryne Sandberg leaned against the cage taking in batting practice.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The East New York Depot is home to about 250 buses as well as maintenance, repair and tire shops, fuel tanks and MTA offices, and sits directly adjacent to the subway system’s East New York Yard.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
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In the tanks, the magnetic signatures related to specific geographic locations were recreated with large coils.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps.—
Li Yuan,
New York Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Aug. 2024
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“Guardhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardhouse. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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