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It’s a sure sign that greed, not fear, is the current phase of the arc of Mr. McWilliams’s pendulum that nobody can be sure whether these digital blockhouses will ever generate a dollar of profit.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

Beyond the beach rise the bluffs where the Germans built their first line of defenses with trenches and blockhouses.

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2019

We passed dilapidated blockhouses, children taking bucket baths, and old women spreading rice over tattered tarpaulins to dry.

From The New Yorker Jan. 12, 2015

Climb any hill and you may well find pillboxes, bunkers, blockhouses; stroll through any freshly plowed field and you might just spot shrapnel, cartridges and bullets atop the furrows.

From New York Times Aug. 21, 2014

Usually several people settled at the same place and built a fort of cabins, stockades, and blockhouses, arranged in a hollow square.

From Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha Grassham