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corral

[kuh-ral] / kəˈræl /
NOUN
enclosure
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Mopping up: Neutralizing antibodies effectively corral HIV so there is less virus circulating in the body's blood supply.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

She didn’t use AI to generate prose, but she did use it to transcribe interviews, edit text and corral data.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

Instead of letting the lanky, nearly 7-foot Durant corral the loose ball, the 6-foot-3 Smart dove to secure it for himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

As he led her out of the corral, Sue Kidwell ran forward; she raised her hand as though to wave goodbye, but instead clasped it over her mouth.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

At the gate of the corrals two men took tickets from the people that went in.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

Security officials dressed in Barbour jackets and earpieces discreetly corralled the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

The band might next have corralled the herd into a narrow gorge in order to better control and defend it.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

In contrast, making changes to Google’s bigger Pro models requires corralling much more of Google’s resources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

But others maintain that the more defenses the department had in place, the better the prospects of corralling the fire when it was small, no matter the speed and behavior of the winds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 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

Some kids were harder to guess, but we were a herd of dress-code violators, and the man on the stage was corralling us.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez


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