guardhouses

noun

plural of guardhouse
as in hulks

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  1. hulks
  2. glasshouses
  3. wards
  4. tanks
  5. concentration camps
  6. cages
Noun
  • Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of hulks
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  • Framed in iron, this glass structure is said to be one of the world’s most elegant glasshouses.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Start at the outdoor garden to snap photos in front of bright yellow and orange mums, ornamental green cabbages, and a towering pumpkin tree, then go inside to see the historic glasshouses.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
Definition of glasshouses
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  • That applies to organisations such as cafes, leisure centres, gyms and hairdressers, as well as public toilets, local sports clubs with at least 25 members, hospital wards, domestic violence shelters and rape-crisis shelters.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Held the first Tuesday each August, this year’s celebration in Aurora included block parties and gatherings of police, fire and emergency vehicles at 24 different community events across all of the city’s 10 wards.
    — David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of wards
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  • In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.
    — Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.
    — Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
Definition of tanks
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  • Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
Definition of concentration camps
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  • At center stand two cages modeled after nineteenth-century shipping containers that carried Pacific breadfruit to Europe for study and consumption.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Many sloths intended for display at the International Drive attraction languished and died by early this year in small cages inside an unheated warehouse.
    — Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of cages
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