entrance
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Some hoped for a good score on the gaokao, China’s all-important university entrance exam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The filming location of its entrance, known as Glastonbury Grove in the show, is in Franklin Canyon Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Skiing the next day, I foolishly followed the Jackson Hole folks until I realized we were at the entrance to a set of steep and narrow chutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Security at the breakwater entrance was "10 times stronger than the previous day", Spanish newspaper El País reported.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
She produces a set of keys with her right hand and with her left grabs a folding gate—how did I not notice there was a gate before—and pulls it across the width of the entrance.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Near brightly lit cave entrances, several kinds of algae and plants grew in the water.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Many restaurants display Turkish-language menus outside their entrances.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Chris Edwards has been placing barriers like this massive tree trunk in front of the entrances to his fields - in a bid to deter hare coursers.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Three months later, images from Airbus showed that Iran was already digging out multiple tunnel entrances at the site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The entrances to the house were crowded with jack-o’-lanterns.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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When, in 2000, Mr. Lloyd heard Hussain—the son of Alla Rakha, whose music had entranced him nearly a half-century earlier—new doors of possibility opened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
How Scotland, and other parts of the world, became entranced by the fairytale only for the reality of sport's essential brutality to hit them square between the eyes at Celtic Park on denouement day.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Still, it didn’t take long until the video for BTS’ “Life Goes On” entranced Jimenez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
That becomes a problem when, after one of their weekly lunches, the three friends stroll around a furniture store, where Camille is entranced by a gorgeous chair she can’t possibly afford.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
But as he set the saucer down —with the dragonlet still clinging to the edge —Jeremy again found himself entranced by the strange beauty of the little beast.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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Brazil now need major surgery - starting with the area of the field where they used to be so strong, so creative, so entrancing - the midfield.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Zimmer, a New York City comedian, is tasked with a heavy, grief-laden dramatic role, and she’s utterly convincing, entrancing in her stillness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The 17th-century painter’s depiction of the biblical figure, who has left behind her life of sin, is a work of entrancing details and pervading stillness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The lyric, "I'll cry my eyes violet", refers to the star's famously entrancing eyes; and the line "what could you possibly get for the girl who has everything" namechecks one of her films.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
What was it about a season’s first snowfall, Mariam wondered, that was so entrancing?
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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