cage
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Just as his digital persona reached its apex, his real-world life was locked in a cage.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Video footage showed deputies assisting wildlife officials as they carried the tranquilized animal to a brown cage to transport it out of the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
In all, 1,589,577 dozen eggs were covered by the recall, and included both white shell eggs and brown cage free shell eggs under a variety of brand names.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Financial Times' front page pictures Atif Najib, the cousin of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and former head of political security, standing in a cage during a court hearing in Damascus.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The judges had gone on ahead, moving from table to table, cage to cage.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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The bounty came not just from Glidden’s 40-acre oyster operation, where the shellfish grow in cages on the Damariscotta’s surface and bottom, but from neighbors up and down the river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Five moon bears which have spent decades living in cages in South Korea have been cleared by vets to be moved to Suffolk.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The center was assembled in just eight days in June last year with bunk beds, wire cages and large white tents at an abandoned airfield in the Everglades, home to a large population of alligators.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
By the time Coach Rockford came to check on me by the batting cages, I was already heading back to the field.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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He strolled San Francisco’s streets with them to promote his caged menagerie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
OpenAI had caged the models in a “sandbox,” a system that didn’t have access to the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
For now, the elusive Neukgu has become a "symbol of independence", a "wolf that wouldn't stay caged", according to creators of the meme coin Neukgu.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
He paced like a caged animal, and Luke had no idea why.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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Ben Williamson, who works for PeTA, says that the new box shows that people today no longer accept “the chaining and caging of wild animals.”
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 23, 2024
“Simply caging corals and then removing the cages later, that’s two times the amount of work, two times the amount of bottom time,” Karp said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
One tomb, part of a substantial cemetery surrounding a monastery to the west of Xylotymbou village was being used for caging cats.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
Sir Robert said the "effective caging of human beings" was "out of date".
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2022
No interest in caging the prey for later use.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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