cordon
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Many families are only just discovering the extent of damage to their homes as West Midlands Fire Service allowed some behind the cordon after three days.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It did work, the system worked," director Sean Curran told reporters on Wednesday, insisting that a cordon had prevented the alleged attacker from reaching the main hall where the dinner was taking place in April.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
This time the US Secret Service is taking no chances, shutting down a swathe of Washington and throwing up a huge security cordon to ensure the White House dinner 2.0 passes off safely.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
A strict cordon remains in place and there is currently no public access for vehicles or walkers to Glenmore Forest Park or Loch Morlich.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
At 3:30 officials from the International Olympic Committee, draped in gold cords and wearing tall silk top hats and coats with long tails, walked out onto the Maifeld and formed a double cordon.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
Members of the public have been asked to avoid the area, with cordons in place.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Roads in the area have now re-opened, the buses removed from scene and police cordons have been lifted.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
The upright and horizontal cordons may also be used, though neither of these forms is specially well adapted to pears.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by F. A. Waugh
Steve Chapman, who lives opposite the beach, said he could not get into his road because it was cordoned off.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some of the worst-affected areas have been cordoned off and many residents who were evacuated, including the Bishop of Dudley, the Right Reverand Martin Gorick, have not been able to return home.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The new EU stepped in to help build border fences, including an eight-foot-tall barrier built in 1995 to replace the rusting, chest-high wire that cordoned Ceuta off from Morocco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Covent Garden street where the incident unfolded, lined with stores and outdoor seating, was cordoned off with police tape for several hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The whole place had been cordoned off and crawling with stadwatch.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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The key is ‘alignment,’ which improves capability while cordoning off dangerous knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Helicopter footage captured by NBC4 showed police tape cordoning off a section of the residential street, where a large number of emergency responders were gathered.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Immediately after Cox was fired and Richardson and Ruckelshaus had resigned, Nixon’s chief of staff, Alexander M. Haig, ordered the cordoning off of all three of their offices.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
Police arrived soon after, urging visitors to disperse as they began cordoning off the street.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Police have been investigating the cause of Friday's incident, cordoning off the scene which remained scattered with debris.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
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