batten
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The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Banks have looked to batten down the hatches in response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
As Scotland prepares to welcome in 2026, some residents will be getting ready to batten down the hatches, with a yellow snow and ice warning in force for much of the country.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
Warning signs such as these can cause investors to think it’s time to sell bonds and batten down the hatches.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
That no one could have understood that they would be the target of monthly hurricanes pinballing up the Mississippi Alley, gunning for anything that didn’t have the sense to batten down, float, or go underground.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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