cage
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The author’s passionate chronicle opens the cage, granting those within both voice and substance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Interacting with an FSB investigator, attending pretrial hearings in a cage, counseled by the Journal’s Moscow lawyers, he inches his way almost farcically toward an inevitable conviction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
In one experiment in 2012, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave mice a mild electric shock in a particular cage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Hidden in parks, woodlands and nature reserves, species ranging from the bright-red fly agaric to the rare red cage fungus can be found by anyone willing to slow down and take a closer look.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
In fact, what Zeke felt fold over him was not the barbed cage of a giant robot pelican suit, but the tough muscles of a wombat.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
The plants, constructed in fortified bunkers and protected from drone attack by huge steel cages, are each capable of providing electricity and heat to several hundred of the city's high-rise apartment blocks.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Sales of backyard batting cages, at costs around $25,000, are surging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Only that there were cages on both sides.”
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Detainees at the now-shuttered immigration facility in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" were held at times in metal cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The doves that appear onstage and occasionally in the audience during Prospero’s performances are kept in elaborate cages, delivered to each theater along with the rest of his luggage and supplies.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Herzog impresses this notion from the very beginning: A dream shared by Joan and Jean, in which the sisters stand in a corridor flanked by caged birds.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Wolf of Essex caged" reads the paper's headline.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Her caged parakeet in the upper corner stares back at us, acknowledging our voyeurism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The once-stampeding Dodgers have been caged by the Colorado Rockies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
Conjure companions were never caged because it'd be like locking away your best friend, a part of you.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
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
As more people exploit wildlife — capturing, caging, transporting and stressing animals that then shed and pick up diseases — we get closer to the next pandemic.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
No interest in caging the prey for later use.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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