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Then, as the credits sequence continues through the creative team, things get more ominous: Monkeys assemble together, climbing the parapets, even as someone tries to hold them off (?) with a spider.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025 -
And to allay the fears of brownstone-dwellers: A cornice is not a parapet, so most brownstones don’t actually have parapets.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
9 Oct. 2024
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The 18th-century ramparts encircling the city are free to climb and boast dramatic ocean views.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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Lunch salads from the organic garden and thali suppers are served in surprising nooks: in the garden, under a lush canopy of vines, or on a rounded rampart.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Dec. 2023
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A little under an hour northeast, off I-69 in Anderson, is Mounds State Park, home to 10 earthworks built by prehistoric Native Americans known as the Adena-Hopewell people.—
Holly V. Hays,
The Indianapolis Star,
28 Mar. 2024
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Koko Bayer has filmed footage of most of her grandfather’s major sculptures and earthworks since 2019 for an in-progress documentary.—
Andrew Travers,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Jan. 2025
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But after some years, the cesspool got bigger, and our fort got smaller, and eventually the cesspool must have looked inviting.—
Willy Staley,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Amid the rapid change in the 800 and 400 free events, now the fans await how long Katie Ledecky will hold her fort in the 1500.—
Paras J. Haji,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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But storybook fortresses aren’t exclusive to mythical kingdoms and romantic tales.—
Gulnaz Khan,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Gothic fortress on West 23rd Street was once home to many of the twentieth century’s beautiful and damned—Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, and Sid Vicious among them.—
Ian Malone,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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His ideas found broader application solving logistical problems during the Napoleonic Era — for instance, identifying the most efficient way to build fortifications, in order to minimize the costs of transporting materials across Europe.—
Siobhan Roberts,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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In addition to cannabis oil, this version gets more healthy fortification and great flavor from hulled hemp seeds.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2025
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One more guard will be patrolling the battlements at the top, but getting past him is just a matter of timing.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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This isn’t a conscious effort to shore up the southern battlements?—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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Germany’s status as a bulwark against populism will likely be determined not Sunday, but in the years to come.—
Mark Sappenfield,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Feb. 2025
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On a national level, enshrining community as a civic value and way of life must serve as a local bulwark against natural disaster and larger political forces.—
Rachel Kraus,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Breastwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breastwork. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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