watchtower
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watchtowers
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It is effectively a watchtower or control tower for all your data.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
A watchtower on a hilltop, still painted in the colours of the Iranian flag, overlooks the base.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
Settlers soon installed a camera on a watchtower on the edge of Shilo, about 60 feet from his home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
It takes a while before we see the telltale signs: the camp watchtower, and later the flames blackening the sky.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
I think of what Cain said to me that night we stood on the watchtower and looked out at the dunes.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
The property has been reported to feature a Portuguese Colonial-style villa with a large party room, along with watchtowers and 12 cannons that give the retreat a decidedly fortresslike appearance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
But new watchtowers along that border have pushed escapees to unconventional and riskier routes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
But with high fences, watchtowers and armed guards, "there was no way to leave", until he was released with 5,400 other Chinese nationals since the February crackdown.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
Five years later, two men escaped from a maximum-security Wisconsin prison that once held Jeffrey Dahmer, fleeing early one morning when four of the facility’s five watchtowers were unmanned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
The hours inch by, slower than a graveyard shift on the watchtowers.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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