as in fortress
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
a massive stone citadel continues to command the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Recent Examples of citadel
Others share the fear that a Trumpified Weiss is storming the citadel of objective journalism.
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Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Lima, Peru Reuters — At least 900 tourists were stranded near Peru’s ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu on Tuesday, the country’s tourism minister said, after a passenger train service was suspended due to a protest.
—CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
The day trip to the famous Incan citadel begins a few miles outside of the ancient city of Cusco.
—Nicole Edenedo, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Climb the fortress trail to San Giovanni—a crumbling hilltop citadel that once guarded the city from Ottoman sieges—where the vistas stretch like a myth across fjord-like waters.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Lima, Peru Reuters — At least 900 tourists were stranded near Peru’s ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu on Tuesday, the country’s tourism minister said, after a passenger train service was suspended due to a protest.
—CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
The day trip to the famous Incan citadel begins a few miles outside of the ancient city of Cusco.
—Nicole Edenedo, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
Climb the fortress trail to San Giovanni—a crumbling hilltop citadel that once guarded the city from Ottoman sieges—where the vistas stretch like a myth across fjord-like waters.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for citadel
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The fortress of intellectual property This is why the Warner bid is essential, Shapiro said, repeating one of his recent theories about the coming wave of disruption in media.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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Walk in around the massive fortress with its cannons and tunnels.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
9 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Mike Schneider,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Campbell’s main support always came from the union stronghold of Pueblo, in southern Colorado.—
Dave Marston,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Our chairs are for sitting on, not for constructing elaborate forts.—
Eddie Small,
New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2026
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The steady flow of packages into our New York and London beauty closets alone could create a cardboard box fort or two.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
29 Dec. 2025
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“Citadel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citadel. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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