cage
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It began with a geriatric black-Lab mix who’d been picked up as a stray and locked in a cage at the South Los Angeles animal shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Persistent rain turned torrential and the first two throws of the women's hammer throw slipped from athletes' grip and clattered into the cage as thunder cracked above the arena.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Winning is hard enough without a right-on-right cage match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
A salary range is a ‘floor to build on, not a cage or a ceiling.’
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The music coming from outside is drowned out by the sound of my heart pounding against my rib cage.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
Military vehicles were decked out with antidrone jammers and protective cages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
If Salah's intention was to rattle cages, it has certainly done that.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Lightbulbs inside wire cages lined the walls every ten feet.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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
We passed a caged dog and saw a puppy on a short leash being loaded into a vehicle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Her caged parakeet in the upper corner stares back at us, acknowledging our voyeurism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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
On its first level were big wooden doors over which had been set an open space, caged in with metal bars.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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
Those include caging seedlings to protect them from hungry animals, which increases their survival odds almost five-fold, according to Erin Knight, a biological science technician at the preserve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
