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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fortress .
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Examples
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The heavily-buttressed idea about the invincibility of Wall Street -- the fortressed embodiment of Big Corporate Control of our land, our sea, our air, our country and even our DNA -- just got Occupied.
Roberto Lovato: Occupy Wall Street Must End the Dictatorship - of Corporations Roberto Lovato 2011
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The heavily-buttressed idea about the invincibility of Wall Street -- the fortressed embodiment of Big Corporate Control of our land, our sea, our air, our country and even our DNA -- just got Occupied.
Roberto Lovato: Occupy Wall Street Must End the Dictatorship - of Corporations Roberto Lovato 2011
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It is in this connection that the two capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu have become as good as fortressed with additional deployment of police and paramilitary forces.
Red Alert in J&K after recovering huge quantity of arms, ammunition,Army asked to stand by 2010
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It is in this connection that the two capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu have become as good as fortressed with additional deployment of police and paramilitary forces.
Red Alert in J&K after recovering huge quantity of arms, ammunition,Army asked to stand by 2010
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But more seriously it goes on to say that any drop off in violence in Baghdad is because the sectarian cleansing is complete in most areas and there are fortressed enclaves of Sunnis surrounded by Shiites.
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One more chance to see the “Outsider” in his many forms – and perhaps, if for only a moment, to go Outside our own fortressed thoughts to meet him.
Archive 2007-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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One more chance to see the “Outsider” in his many forms – and perhaps, if for only a moment, to go Outside our own fortressed thoughts to meet him.
Heroes for the Future Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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They deem themselves protected against any attacks behind their fortressed walls.
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After all, cynical New Yorkers are supposed to be fortressed islands within an island.
Lesley M. M. Blume: Facebook: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide 2008
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It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state, fortressed with American “homeland security” technologies, pumped up with “war on terror” rhetoric.
Archive 2008-05-01 The English Libertarian 2008
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