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Recent Examples of casbah
Soak up the sun at Plage d’Agadir in Morocco, and leave time to visit the city’s famous souk and kasbah ruins.
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Melanie Van Zyl,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Mar. 2026
Set the scene Arriving at Four Seasons Costa Palmas feels like driving toward a kasbah in Morocco—miles of stark desert stretch out on either side before the landscape suddenly opens to an oasis on the edge of the Sea of Cortez.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
The rooms—seven in the main kasbah and another seven spread around the grounds—are as lovely as can be, but Dar Ahlam is not a traditional hotel.
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Ann Abel,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
The views from the kasbah, nestled deep in the hills outside Marrakech, are uniformly spectacular.
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Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Oct. 2024
The face-offs that started with a break-in at Wick’s house have since traveled to antique weapons stores and Casablanca casbahs; New York City tunnels, bridges, harbors, and public libraries; and European museums and churches, with no civilians ever getting caught in the crossfire.
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Vulture,
25 Mar. 2023
La Muralla Roja, designed in 1968 and completed in 1973, in the coastal city of Calpe, reimagined the North African casbah as a bright pink assemblage of walls and stairways as if arranged by M.C. Escher.
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New York Times,
19 Jan. 2022
She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.
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Washington Post,
9 July 2021
Melanie Van Zyl,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Mar. 2026
Set the scene Arriving at Four Seasons Costa Palmas feels like driving toward a kasbah in Morocco—miles of stark desert stretch out on either side before the landscape suddenly opens to an oasis on the edge of the Sea of Cortez.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
The rooms—seven in the main kasbah and another seven spread around the grounds—are as lovely as can be, but Dar Ahlam is not a traditional hotel.
—
Ann Abel,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
The views from the kasbah, nestled deep in the hills outside Marrakech, are uniformly spectacular.
—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Oct. 2024
The face-offs that started with a break-in at Wick’s house have since traveled to antique weapons stores and Casablanca casbahs; New York City tunnels, bridges, harbors, and public libraries; and European museums and churches, with no civilians ever getting caught in the crossfire.
—
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2023
La Muralla Roja, designed in 1968 and completed in 1973, in the coastal city of Calpe, reimagined the North African casbah as a bright pink assemblage of walls and stairways as if arranged by M.C. Escher.
—
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2022
She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.
—
Washington Post,
9 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for casbah
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The unique cultural makeup of Cádiz—with its famous Moorish alcazar, with its echoes of Arab-Andalusian culture playing alongside Spanish Catholic aesthetics—and its quiet way of life have been a steady guide for Judeline as she’s found her artistic voice and its visual direction.
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The kitchen had two notable features—a big cast-iron woodstove on which everything was cooked, and a dishwasher that stood up like a blockhouse, designed to receive trays two feet by two with wire-mesh bottoms and sides four inches high.
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Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials.
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This was for Clark’s tee shot rolling into a bunker, leading to a short miss for bogey that again trimmed his lead to one shot.
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The hill behind the final green will be a sea of people, all hoping to witness some magic like Jordan Spieth’s bunker blast or Harris English’s marathon eight-hole playoff win over Kramer Hickok or someone trying to challenge Jim Furyk’s mind-boggling round of 58.
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Written and produced by Australian filmmaker Anthony Maley, the project follows three unlikely insect heroes who infiltrate a vast human chemical fortress in search of an antidote to a toxin threatening the survival of their world.
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After previous coaches played home matches away from the timeless and intimidating Defensores del Chaco national stadium in Asunción, Alfaro restored that hallowed ground as Paraguay’s footballing fortress.
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The studio setting opened up sonic possibilities unavailable inside a fort.
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The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
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“Casbah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casbah. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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