Fort Knox
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“Actually getting in there, it was like getting into Fort Knox, quite frankly,” said Steve Brass, a recent inductee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
A working gold toilet seems a much better use of bullion than, say, making it into bars and then just having it sit, useless, in vaults in Fort Knox.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2025
Andrew Friedman realized this when he emptied Fort Knox during the offseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2025
Mr Tait was revealed as the Fujitsu source who told Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells that Horizon was "like Fort Knox" - a claim she repeated in a letter to Parliament in 2020.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
If they were for storing cotton, as Haas surmises, they would have been, in this textile-mad society, an emblem of state power and wealth, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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