cordon
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Officials have built a cordon around the clutch of eggs, which lie between the shoreline and the boardwalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The cordon has also been extended to St James's Street, where an officer is standing guard.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The brigade has now removed its cordon, and people are being allowed back into affected properties.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The real Bora, 29, managed to slip through the security cordon and make a dash towards central Delhi before eventually being detained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ten or twelve of us women got up and formed a cordon around our priest.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Despite road closures and police cordons, emergency services have continued to receive reports of visitors attempting to enter the affected area.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Officers set up cordons on surrounding roads to prevent people from heading to the coast.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
At the scene, several police cordons were deployed at various locations inside and outside the station, according to images published by local media.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Photographs of the scene show cordons in place, with emergency workers hanging sheets of tarp around part of the mall.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The apple is the best of all trees for horizontal cordons.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by F. A. Waugh
Dozens of emergency vehicles were waiting with their lights flashing near the river front and police officers cordoned off the port entrance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
An AFP reporter on site noted ambulances and multiple police cars at the scene as police cordoned off the area -- one of Poland's landmark tourist hotspots popular with locals and foreign visitors.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
Firefighters cordoned off the area and confirmed there were no injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Images from the scene showed parts of Renfield Street and West Regent Street were cordoned off, with a number of fire crews gathered outside both the Bistro and Maltman bars.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Stateroom 3 is glorious as well as a misnomer—it constitutes half the car, and contains at least one additional room, which is cordoned off with a thick velvet curtain.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Security was tight for the visit, with Berlin cordoning off flag-lined streets and deploying large numbers of police.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The key is ‘alignment,’ which improves capability while cordoning off dangerous knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Most designs involve cordoning off a bay and employing staff to ensure Wikie and Keijo - who were born in captivity and cannot be released into the wild - were properly fed and looked after.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
That velvet rope wasn’t cordoning off anything but wishes and dreams.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2023
With police cordoning off the area, he hadn’t been able to get in for days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
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