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breastworks

noun

plural of breastwork

as in fortifications

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During the seven years that it was occupied by British forces, Manhattan had been ravaged by fires, picked over by looters, covered in fortifications, and swollen with refugees.

— Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
The historic military fort overlooks the entrance to the Halifax Harbour and boasts old fortifications, historic artifacts, and unbeatable ocean views.

— Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of fortifications

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The scientists used cutting-edge airborne laser scanning technology and found hundreds of previously unknown earthworks.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 10 Aug. 2026
As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of earthworks

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
A number of defensive forts were planned across the island, including one to be erected right where the Africans had been buried.

— Victoria Davies, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of forts

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All along the parapets, Ormund’s child soldiers are vomiting and pissing themselves.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
The horizontal orientation of the home’s large terraces (which are enclosed by parapets) recalls two of Wright’s prior residential architecture explorations.

— Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026

Definition of parapets

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Most of them can’t afford to outfit their own individual townhouses like armed fortresses as Swift has.

— Bridget Read, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2026
The area’s landscape charms visitors with its green hills, rural farmland, and dramatic medieval castles and fortresses.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of fortresses

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During the final phase of the war in Gaza, Israel and the United States caused significant military and economic damage to Houthi strongholds in Yemen.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
The city remains one of Ukraine’s last strongholds in the Donbas region, but the Russians are getting dangerously close.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

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