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blockhouse

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Definition of blockhouse

as in bunker

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Recent Examples of blockhouse These bolts anchored the blockhouse to the slab, Penders said. — Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 One of the original blockhouses overlooks the canal, while the old town is filled with art galleries and craft stories. — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 Nearby, several of his men sat in the shade of a small blockhouse, holding automatic weapons. — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 The kitchen had two notable features—a big cast-iron woodstove on which everything was cooked, and a dishwasher that stood up like a blockhouse, designed to receive trays two feet by two with wire-mesh bottoms and sides four inches high. — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Chavez was responsible for the craft’s electrical monitor console, which was located in the blockhouse, a concrete building used to observe the proceedings. — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2019 Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026 That same Christmas in Columbia, a settlement of four blockhouses and 50 settlers founded a month earlier at what is now Columbia-Tusculum, pioneers held a feast. — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024

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Noun

This one turns out to be more of a bunker, really, carved into a Norwegian cliff face.

— Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
The 33-year-old, playing at TPC River Highlands for the ninth time, was in a bunker 80 feet from the 13th hole after his second shot on the 526-yard par-5.

— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026

Definition of bunker

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When that didn’t change the safe call, Dalton immediately pointed to the Dodgers dugout, mask in hand urging manager Dave Roberts to challenge.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
The Braves will be well represented at the All-Star Game on July 14 in Philadelphia, and there’s a strong possibility there could be another Braves’ cap or two in the home dugout at Citizens Bank Park that day.

— Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 6 July 2026

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Washington and his men had left the fort heading west toward the sounds of gunfire.

— Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
Background and conception Roughs Tower, or HM Fort Roughs, was originally built in 1942, one in a series of large sea forts built in the North Sea by Great Britain during World War II.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026

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