as in fortress
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
a series of forts along the frontier
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Recent Examples of fort
Johnson has been a major factor in holding down the fort.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2025
For the analysis, published in the journal Parasitology, researchers looked at 50 sediment samples taken from the drain of a third-century latrine at the fort.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
In this new study, a team from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in England dug into the sediment from a third century sewer drain coming from the latrine within the fort’s bath complex.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Dec. 2025
Fort Pickens remains a popular 19th-century fort to visit, protected and preserved along the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
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Tour the fortresses, stroll through the town’s central market, and visit Spianada Square, the largest square in Greece.—
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While the prison grounds have no high fences, the prison units exist as separate fortresses, successors to the long wooden barracks that were once here.—
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McDonald said DeSantis also could be trying to shore up Republican strongholds to mitigate the losses generally experienced by the party in power during midterm elections.—
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Campbell’s main support always came from the union stronghold of Pueblo, in southern Colorado.—
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In September 2023, in the middle of the Northumberland night, a mechanic named Adam Carruthers cut down a sycamore tree more than a century old that stood in a gap along an especially picturesque section of Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman fortification that runs across the narrowest part of England.—
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Passmore’s magisterial, revisionist account of the Maginot Line—the network of French fortifications built in the 1920s and 1930s to stop a German invasion—challenges the conventional understanding of its role in World War II.—
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The area was once a citadel complex in the time of King Herod, who ruled from 37 to 5 B.C. after he was appointed king of Judea by the Romans.—
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The sprawling citadel — complete with towers, walls and barracks — was discovered at the Tel el-Kharouba archaeological site in the Sinai Peninsula, according to an Oct. 11 news release from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.—
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Outside of showing us the Secret Traitor’s handwriting on their shortlists, there were no tells from the production team about who this person could be, just shadowy footage of some hooded player wandering the castle with a lantern.—
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After the cast gathered outside the castle, host Alan Cumming selected one player in plain sight to take on the role.—
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Catania’s Palazzo Biscari (a bastion of Rococo glory) occupies an entire block of the volcanic-stone city and is still occupied by descendants of the Biscari family.—
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Well, Orange County certainly had this reputation for so long as the conservative bastion, going back to not only the Klan days and then the John Birch Society after that.—
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“Fort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fort. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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