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Recent Examples of guardhouse
Richard is painting a landscape of the scene outside his window, notably minus the guardhouse.
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Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Explore the royal apartments and gaze out over the Queen’s Hamlet—home to a windmill, barn, fishery, garm, and guardhouse.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The episode closes on Nina and the Bride arriving at a massive castle, unaware of the local woman watching them from a nearby guardhouse.
—Hayden Mears, TVLine, 5 Dec. 2024
The former guardhouse is expected to be turned into a standalone vintage cocktail lounge.
—Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
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Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Explore the royal apartments and gaze out over the Queen’s Hamlet—home to a windmill, barn, fishery, garm, and guardhouse.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The episode closes on Nina and the Bride arriving at a massive castle, unaware of the local woman watching them from a nearby guardhouse.
—Hayden Mears, TVLine, 5 Dec. 2024
The former guardhouse is expected to be turned into a standalone vintage cocktail lounge.
—Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardhouse
Noun
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On Thursday a few dozen people gathered on the one-way street where Good was killed, blocking the road with steel drums filled with burning wood for warmth to ward of a pelting freezing rain.—
Michael Biesecker,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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Kane County is not alone in considering this sort of measure — Skokie has discussed regulations on them and Chicago aldermen have mulled giving themselves the power to ban short-term home rentals from opening in their wards.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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New rides are Candy Adventure, which combines funhouse, glasshouse and interactive elements, along with KMG X-Drive and Crazy Dance.—
Kari Barnett,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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Amenities: Restaurant, Garden, Gardening School, Cooking School Bonus Tip: The full and half day gardening classes, which take place in Le Manoir’s gardens and glasshouse, are practical, hands-on courses with topics like fruit tree pruning and seed collection.—
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.—
ROBERT D. McFADDEN,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2017
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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The roots of Soviet and post-Soviet homophobia lie not in religion, but in the legacy of the Soviet gulag—where being homosexual was considered the worst thing that could befall a man.—
Mikhail Zygar,
Vanity Fair,
7 Jan. 2026
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The cast fragmented, with the Byers family and El trying to start over in California while Hopper languished in a tonally dissonant Soviet gulag, as though the Duffers didn’t realize that what people loved most about Stranger Things was its grounding in Hawkins.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Dec. 2025
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The Senators came as close as possible to retake the lead in the final minute of the first period, but Drake Batherson missed his backhand shot wide of the open cage.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 2026
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In a scene created to invoke magic and mysticism, the 11-year-old Pancho dreams he has been separated from their family and imprisoned alone in a large cage.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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Make sure your car has at least half a tank of gas, and update your winter survival kit.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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The winners will be announced on February 16 at a gala event at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, coinciding with the foundation’s think-tank event, The World Forum on the Future of Democracy, AI/Tech and Humankind.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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In another extraordinary anecdote, Chang describes hitchhiking her way across remote China to a labor camp her father was being held in, to lift his spirits.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026
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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
14 Dec. 2025
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“Guardhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardhouse. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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