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
Only by traveling to the Ebon Keep, the ancestral fortress of the Dreg’Damor, which has recently fallen silent, can Dyre hope to save his people.
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Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
It’s named after Ayutthaya’s Pom Phet fortress, with some of the rooms offering views of the nearly 500-year-old structure.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2025
Besides its deep history, the city is known for its cobblestone downtown, Castillo de San Marcos (a 17th-century stone fortress with views of Matanzas Bay) and miles of pristine Atlantic beaches.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
There, visitors can find extensive ruins from the military town, including an amphitheater, aqueduct, fortress gates, and an inn.
—Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
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Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
It’s named after Ayutthaya’s Pom Phet fortress, with some of the rooms offering views of the nearly 500-year-old structure.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2025
Besides its deep history, the city is known for its cobblestone downtown, Castillo de San Marcos (a 17th-century stone fortress with views of Matanzas Bay) and miles of pristine Atlantic beaches.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
There, visitors can find extensive ruins from the military town, including an amphitheater, aqueduct, fortress gates, and an inn.
—Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortress
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Even before Trump's tariff salvo, European officials had been debating potential imposition of digital services taxes aimed at large U.S. tech firms, many of which are based in or politically aligned with Republican strongholds such as Texas and Florida.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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However, the company has been strategically expanding beyond its rom-com stronghold.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2025
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Archaeologists believe the Incan citadel was built in the 1420s and abandoned sometime in the mid 1500s, around the time Spanish conquistadors invaded the Inca Empire.—
Hannah Edgar,
ARTnews.com,
24 Feb. 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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The Broader Impact of Nutrition Funding Cuts In addition to treatment programs, nutrition funding cuts have hit essential prevention programs— breastfeeding promotion, food fortification, school feeding, agriculture, and social protection.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland have very visibly laid down new fortifications to trip up advancing tanks.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
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These caterpillars are kings of the tiniest castles ever identified.—
Becky Ferreira,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Castle is in part an homage to Hoyne’s County Kilkenny, home of its fantastic and famed eponymous castle, about 600 years old, as well as other, smaller ones, like Grannagh Castle, which sat just a couple of fields away from Hoyne’s childhood home.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2025
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In recent years, Gov. Ron DeSantis has helped install political allies at the helm of public colleges and universities in an effort to remake Florida’ higher-education into a bastion of conservatism.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2025
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In Singapore, an ultra-connected free trade bastion known for treading a cautious diplomatic line, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong pulled few punches in a message to his fellow citizens over the weekend.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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During that 20-year period, the British inherited Spanish forts and added a network of seven redoubts—long, earthen mounds—to beef up defenses.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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Courtesy of Visit Malta Explore Valletta’s harbor, cathedral, and forts The European Union’s smallest capital, Valletta, does big movie-making business.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Fortress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortress. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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