Thesaurus results for FORTRESSES

fortresses

noun

plural of fortress

as in strongholds

a structure or place from which one can resist attack the boys built a snow fortress and then challenged the neighborhood kids to an in-your-face snowball fight

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Recent Examples of fortresses The trailers show that Eternia was once a vibrant alien-like world with multi-colored forests, massive mountains and fortresses with towering faces carved into their entrances. —

Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 And by the turn of the twenty-first century, most of those tiny bungalows had been replaced by sprawling estates—fortresses for the entertainment elite, where Oscar trophies adorned mantels and wealth guarded from disaster. —

Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 Any pivot toward diplomacy that includes sanctions relief — whether proposed in Washington or Berlin — ignores the fundamental Machiavellian truth that a regime hated by its own people cannot be saved by its external fortresses, but it can be artificially sustained by foreign gold. —

Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026 The eccentric design of Olana was inspired by fortresses in Persia (where, curiously, Church hadn’t travelled), as well as Italian, East Indian, Gothic Revival, and French Second Empire architecture. —

Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 The hilltop structures were originally built as Catholic shrines dedicated to the virgins they're named after, but were turned into military fortresses in the early 1800s—they have since been rehabilitated for tourism. —

Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026 Surface tanks are targets; subsurface reservoirs are fortresses. —

Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 France believed its Maginot Line of fortresses was impregnable – until the Germans simply went around it. —

New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, history buffs will love exploring the island’s capital via colorful Spanish-colonial architecture and imposing, ancient fortresses like La Fortaleza and El Morro. —

Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026

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Boston, the lone plaintiff in the lawsuit, asserted that the measure violates the state and federal constitutions and targets Democratic strongholds under the guise of taking politics out of those elections.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026
In fact, the tax relief in the governor’s proposal would still benefit wealthy homeowners, and DeSantis has touted Florida as a safe haven for billionaires disillusioned with liberal strongholds like California and New York.

— Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026