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Recent Examples of redoubt The worst threat facing the latter is the relocation of a small minority of people from the northern cities to the Southern states which are the redoubt of Lindbergh’s movement. David Renton may 12, Literary Hub, 12 May 2025 Trump will address supporters Tuesday in Macomb County, Mich., an area north of Detroit that is a quintessential redoubt of culturally conservative blue-collar voters. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025 The United States announced late last year that its military had roughly doubled the number of its troops on the ground in Syria, to 2,000, and its many strikes on Islamic State redoubts in the Syrian desert in the last few months appear to have tamped down the immediate threat. Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025 Lesson learned: the three tarantulas were the defensive redoubt that had repelled the roaches. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for redoubt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redoubt
Noun
  • The open seat, covering Manhattan's West Side, has long been a Democratic stronghold, making the primary the real contest.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Even agribusiness constituencies in the Brazilian heartland, long a Bolsonaro stronghold, recognize that Brazil cannot simply distance itself from Beijing.
    HUSSEIN KALOUT, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What looked like a fortress of brands turned out to be a structure too bloated to compete.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Cinderella Castle, built in 1971, was originally painted in grays, blues, and golds, mimicking a European-style palace-fortress with romanticized medieval elements, according to Disney.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hundreds of thousands of people aimed to reach Germany, a bastion of economic stability and prosperity.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Budapest, Hungary Cradled by the Danube’s curves, Budapest is a city where medieval bastions meet Ottoman bathhouses steaming beside Bauhaus blocks.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Intrepid visitors can explore the remnants of 5,000-year-old temples tucked away on clifftops (such as the Wardija Punic temple in Dwerja), sip fresh water from centuries-old springs, and walk the walls of 16th-century fortifications.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The deal allowed the Nazis to bypass an extensive network of fortifications, essentially rendering Czechoslovakia defenseless.
    Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The challenges are immense, poaching syndicates are sophisticated and well-funded, but Hluhluwe–iMfolozi holds the fort.
    Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The boys spend hours playing in the trees that line the two properties, where Heather’s husband even built a fort right in the middle of both yards.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The verdict established that a home is a castle, no matter what color the royalty within.
    Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Redoubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redoubt. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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