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Fort Knox
noun
a military reservation in N Kentucky, SSW of Louisville: location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.
Fort Knox
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noun
a military reservation in N Kentucky: site of the US Gold Bullion Depository. Pop: 12 377 (2000)
Example Sentences
Andrew Friedman realized this when he emptied Fort Knox during the offseason.
For example, Musk spread an unfounded internet theory that US gold reserves had quietly been stolen from Fort Knox in Kentucky.
Sacks said the stockpile would serve as "a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency", drawing comparison to a Kentucky military base that stores a significant portion of US gold assets.
The $100m-facility is often dubbed Asia's Fort Knox.
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.
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