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corral

[kuh-ral] / kəˈræl /
NOUN
enclosure
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Marcus Smart tried a lob to Ayton, but the center couldn’t corral the pass.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

Frederick Weyerhaeuser, a German immigrant, brought order to Wisconsin’s pineries after the Civil War by using river booms to corral and sort the thousands of logs floated down to sawmills each spring.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

Tovar reached before Freeman could corral the ball and get it to Klein at first.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

Speaking on Good Morning Ulster, she described how "in many cases" social media companies are "like the wild west and trying to corral it and control it can be incredibly difficult".

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

He breathed deeply, and each breath had a distinct smell of snow from the north, of ponderosa pine on the rimrock above; finally he smelled horses from the direction of the corral, and he smiled.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Multiple buildings stand on the property, including three separate guesthouses, a 5,500-square-foot movie theater with a stage, several barns, animal shelter facilities, corrals, and a maintenance shop.

From MarketWatch May 5, 2026

WSJ | Buy Side: This leather-clad tray charges two devices and corrals your useful clutter.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

Alongside survey work, the women help villagers access government insurance schemes for their livestock and promote the use of predator‑proof corrals - stone or mesh enclosures that protect animals at night.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2026

The researchers suggest that by carefully arranging the positions of pinned atoms on a surface, they may be able to build larger and more intricate atomic corrals.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2025

“I’m afraid,” says local housewife Amelia Lopez Gamboa, who corrals her family inside her one-room brick house and bars the door.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Visitors are corralled into a walkway by the Freedom 250-branded fencing on one side and low metal barriers on the other.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

And it has to do it without the star power it corralled in the past.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

During the Covid-19 pandemic, he corralled data from across the healthcare industry to build a real-time vaccine supply chain, racing to deliver before the bureaucracy reasserted itself.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Unsettled, they tried to rush out after the event but were corralled to flank Gorka in a photo op.

From Salon Apr. 22, 2026

“We can’t let ourselves be herded and corralled like sheep,” says Kelton.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

“That’s all we are asking people to do: Bring your dogs in at night, night pen livestock,” she said, referring to corralling the animals into a securely fenced area.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2025

Up to now, nanoscale corralling has only been achieved for photons and electrons; this study is the first demonstration that atoms themselves can be corralled in a similar way.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2025

A drawing on a stone discovered in Jordan in 1951 depicted the kites as enclosures for animals, but whether it was for hunting or corralling livestock wasn’t clear.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

For years, the environmental movement, which played such a pivotal role corralling American dam building, was focused more on improving automobile fuel economy and promoting electric vehicles than reducing the total amount of driving.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2024

Shorty, the guy I met over bets with Fat Frankie, is in there corralling balls atop each table with a wooden triangle.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz




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