blockhouse

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Recent Examples of blockhouse Learn More Military History Finally, make a stop at the Oconee Military Museum to honor veterans from the area and the Oconee Station State Historic Site, a stone blockhouse that as used as an outpost by the South Carolina State Militia from about 1792 to 1799. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2025 That same Christmas in Columbia, a settlement of four blockhouses and 50 settlers founded a month earlier at what is now Columbia-Tusculum, pioneers held a feast. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024 One of the original blockhouses overlooks the canal, while the old town is filled with art galleries and craft stories. Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 Nearby, several of his men sat in the shade of a small blockhouse, holding automatic weapons. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 This makeshift blockhouse marks where technicians launched Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950 — America's first rocket from the Cape. Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 The news touched off a wild celebration in the blockhouse hard by the Vanguard launching platform. Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023 The ultimate penalty was meted out to him in a rural penitentiary on the evening of Nov. 10, 2009, in a stark, concrete blockhouse called L Unit, as Meyers’s brother, Bob Meyers, looked on. Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
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Noun
  • From a military bunker, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said that 25,000 troops have been deployed to the western states of Táchira and Zulia, which border Colombia.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • All 600 employees made it to the nearby bunker, but 23 were injured.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Kevin Gausman threw a 53-pitch inning and fell down the dugout steps.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Even as a player, Cole remembers sitting in the dugout sometimes and thinking how much a game was dragging along.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout it there are forts, full-size wooden galleons and signs hung on what appear to be Persian rugs.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Creation, including one very creepy scene in which two girls hide under a blanket fort while a presence draws closer to them.
    Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

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