barn door
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“The backstop becomes more important when the barn door is open,” said Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
He called the mayor's measures "palliative", and a case of "closing the barn door after the horse has bolted".
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
But ultimately, “access to pasture” means just that—the barn door is open, says Kestrel Burcham, a policy director at the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit consumer watchdog group.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 16, 2024
Fisher recalls endless hours spent gazing out of his bedroom window, waiting for the barn door to his grandfather’s airplane hangar to open.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Seconds later she came to the barn door, pushing a reluctant ewe who was starting labor.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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