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Recent Examples of guardhouse
Zoom in: The new businesses are planned to open in the hilltop Spanish colonial revival-style homes of naval officers and the former guardhouse.
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Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
The movie studio backers built a forlorn guardhouse on 40 acres in South Windsor, but nothing else.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
Officials also plan to extend the airport’s buffer zone, currently being guarded by members of the Armed Forces in the makeshift guardhouses made from shipping containers.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses.
—Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
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Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
The movie studio backers built a forlorn guardhouse on 40 acres in South Windsor, but nothing else.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
Officials also plan to extend the airport’s buffer zone, currently being guarded by members of the Armed Forces in the makeshift guardhouses made from shipping containers.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024
Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses.
—Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardhouse
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Employees at Palmetto General and other hospitals that were owned by the for-profit Steward Health have long complained about a lack of supplies, layoffs, ward closings, service cuts, broken equipment, and delayed payments to vendors and staff.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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The city is still overwhelmingly Democrat blue, but the electorate is clearly shifting toward the center, or even MAGA in some wards.—
Will Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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The new glasshouse floats ethereally above a quiet reflecting pool.—
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airmail.news,
16 Nov. 2024
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Driving the news: The project adds glasshouses, office space and plants while relocating and enhancing existing structures, including its 1906 restaurant.—
Mike D'Onofrio,
Axios,
23 Oct. 2024
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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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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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That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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Now as then, letters from the gulags tell of eternal winters, cold cells, and the longing for the first signs of greenery to appear amid the thaw.—
Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
14 Jan. 2024
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Alongside the message, the shelter shared photos of the two dogs, including a picture of them inside the cage in the desert.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Rossi, however, didn’t leave satisfied after hitting the side of the net with part of the cage gaping as the Wild pressed for the tying goal on a six-on-five late.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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What do the Wolves have in the tank two nights after a thriling but draining comeback win like that?—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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In a video describing the plant’s operation, trucks pull into the center and septic sludge and grease are pumped from the vehicles and treated in a series of tanks, which separate solids from liquids.—
Ryan Gillespie,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2025
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Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.—
Ethan Baron,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Migrants being held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are now being permitted to speak to their attorneys by phone, an official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a court filing.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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An additional million had been thrown into arbitrary detention or packed off to penal colonies and labor camps.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
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“Guardhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardhouse. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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