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The fire department reported that parts of the facade and some of the parapet separated from the garage, sending bricks crashing to the sidewalk and street below.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 2025 -
But after Skydance’s deal to takeover Paramount became official this morning, George Cheeks, who is Chair of TV Media at the company, put his head above the parapet.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Viral footage of an interaction between the couple surfaced on Friday night, when Clark approach McCaffery in the ramparts of Gainbridge Field House.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
19 July 2025
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The Little Red Book turned into a shiny Mastercard and the stone ramparts of the Great Wall into stacks of money.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
16 July 2025
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One of America’s oldest plantations, Magnolia was established in the 1670s as a rice plantation featuring extensive dikes and earthworks built by enslaved Africans with a link to the Gullah culture.—
Noreen Kompanik,
Boston Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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When early earthworks began on the soccer fields, archaeologists uncovered graves, pits and ditches, according to the post.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
29 July 2025
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Shots rang out at Fort Stewart at 10:56 a.m., according to the fort’s Facebook page, with medical personnel dispatched to treat the wounded at 11:09 a.m. An unidentified soldier posted a video on TikTok showing a group of uniformed soldiers running towards a door during lockdown.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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By the time the Army withdrew, settlers had created a small community around the fort, raising cattle and growing citrus.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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In real life, the high-tech Utah fortress from the streaming film Mountainhead is available as a $60,000-a-night rental in Utah, and Yellowstone’s iconic Montana ranch lets guests live out their Western drama fantasies.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
13 Aug. 2025
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The new Carnage maze coming to Magic Mountain this Halloween season will take visitors inside a fortress ruled by a villainous clown named Carnage.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
11 Aug. 2025
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This would force Ukraine to built fortifications to be built along the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk border areas, the terrain of which is poorly suited to act as a defensive line, the ISW said.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Aug. 2025
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Since 2021, a team led by Jonathan Burns, an archaeologist at Juniata College, has been working with students and veterans on private land a few miles from Fort Ligonier, a military fortification built during the French and Indian War, to uncover physical evidence of the battle.—
Aurora Martínez,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2025
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At its heart stands the Castle of Guimarães, a formidable 10th-century fortress with jagged battlements and a towering keep, believed to be the birthplace of Afonso Henriques—Portugal’s first king.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Bryce combined Gothic and Renaissance elements in the estate’s regal design, accentuating the exterior with turrets, towers, and battlements.—
Allix Cott,
Architectural Digest,
18 Oct. 2024
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The bulwark on the starboard side can be pulled down to create a terrace, the gunwale can slide downwards to expand the window below, and the drop-down platforms by the lounge can be opened up for an alfresco feel.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
25 July 2025
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Grant writes about him a bit the way that some on the intellectual right talk about Trump today: as an imperfect but basically necessary bulwark against the depredations of the liberal elite.—
Zack Beauchamp,
Vox,
2 July 2025
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“Breastwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breastwork. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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