as in fortress
a structure or place from which one can resist attack
defenders at the border fortifications preparing for an attack
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Recent Examples of fortification
The bastion, the fortifications, the views all shape the mood for diners.
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Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
This has only strained a grid that already requires fortification, leading to services disruptions and reliability issues.
—Gary Labarbera, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
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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Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
This has only strained a grid that already requires fortification, leading to services disruptions and reliability issues.
—Gary Labarbera, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortification
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What can any of us make of our momentary intimate lives in such an immense world, with equally immense unknowns, mysteries as great as death or the whale, as deep as love or the ocean, as sad and beautiful as a jellyfish torn and glistening in a small fortress of shore rock?—
Natalie Diaz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Kremlin has succeeded in building a fortress economy, but one that is fortified against the future more than against the enemy.—
Jeremy Shapiro,
The Atlantic,
10 Sep. 2025
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Several clinics that provide gender-affirming care, including some in Democratic strongholds, have shut down in recent months due to the Administration’s threats to cut federal funding for medical facilities that provide such care to transgender and nonbinary youth.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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In addition to being Democratic strongholds, Chicago and Illinois have long been destinations for immigrants.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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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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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) was filmed at the Palácio, as well as in the neighboring town of Cascais, about 45 minutes by train from Lisbon and popular for its beaches and 15th-century citadel.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
29 July 2025
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Philly diasporicans certainly are a proud local bastion of Latin identity, and the parade is an outpouring of civic love via flags, music, dance and food.—
Héctor M. Varela Rios,
The Conversation,
8 Sep. 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of people aimed to reach Germany, a bastion of economic stability and prosperity.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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The verdict established that a home is a castle, no matter what color the royalty within.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Instead of dreary Danish castles, the action unfolds in boardrooms, mansions and wedding halls in contemporary London and the verse is delivered by a primarily South Asian cast.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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“Fortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortification. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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