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fort

noun as in stronghold

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But hidden beneath the heartbreak of a tournament run cut short is hope for a future with Smith and her fellow freshmen holding down the fort until Watkins is healthy enough to return.

These eight people sneak into their local mall and find this concrete box and turn it into a secret headquarters, like a fort or a secret club.

From Salon

Over the centuries there have been a number of forts on the site and they played a vital role in the defence of the east coast.

From BBC

It’s kind of a fort that we have in our bed with all of our little creatures living in it and it’s really nice to just chill.

"Possibly even thousands of years before that as we have an Iron Age hill fort up at the top and potentially people could have taken shelter in them all that way back," she said.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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