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entrance

[en-truhns] / ˈɛn trəns /




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But the new rules are unlikely to apply to next month's college entrance tests, Lee said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Soon, I was bicycling to Harris Teeter for cornbread ingredients, where Harry the Happy Dragon — a coin-operated green kiddie ride — stood sentry outside the entrance.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

They dragged a sand-filled dummy into the apartment and placed it in the entrance hall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Police said Sunday that a 65-year-old man was found dead on a sidewalk near an entrance to Disneyland in Anaheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

My eyes dart to the entrance of the archives, looking for the erstwhile clerk, but Theo shakes his head that I have no need to worry.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

The increasingly extreme merchandise taking over suburban lawns and big-box store entrances is starting to spook some consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

One video shows McHenry later speaking with a security worker near one of the venue’s entrances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The bank acquired large pieces of art from Maya Lin and Gerhard Richter that adorn the entrances, and the tower houses Morgan’s Pub, a bar inside the office that serves pub fare and Guinness pints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

While shop owners sandbagged the entrances to their stores and boarded up the doors and windows, there was little sense of impending disaster.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

The entrances to the house were crowded with jack-o’-lanterns.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

But innovation will remain a hard sell so long as users remain entranced by the big blur, where art becomes media, media becomes content, and content becomes time tossed into the wind.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 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

Four-year-old Juni Wahab was entranced by the sight of the swallows and cormorants swooping low overhead and the rushing twists of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The poetry is so-so, but programmers are entranced by its coding skill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

But only in the south did the Maya elite, entranced by visions of its own glory, take its hands off the switch.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

As the star of Misty Green, Eleazar is an absolute mess, but an entrancing one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The result is a quiet, entrancing study of one man’s gaze and of the ideas and questions that seized him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The current members are entrancing, boasting a gorgeous blend of voices and guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

Naomi had found the gentle flicker of the flares entrancing, and Muff had smiled and squeezed her arm.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez


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