fence
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Police were called shortly after 22:30 GMT on Saturday to a home in Park Road in Chandler's Ford where an "unknown group" had gained entry to the event over a garden fence.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Rachel English, a painter in Spicewood, has watched the region change from her family’s roughly 400-acre farm, which shares a fence line with Canyon Ranch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
When we bought the place, I envisioned our children running wild in the backyard under the climbing wisteria, but the wisteria is invasive, and it ate away at our fence and choked the rhododendrons.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Outside the perimeter fence, daily life bears little resemblance to the military activity unfolding inside.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
I stood up in the wagon so I could see over the rail fence around our barn lot.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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The activists made it on to the site by scaling barrier fences despite a police presence.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
The project also includes replacing the bridge railings, fences and median barrier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Sometimes in life the most important choices are between bad options and resisting the temptation to swing for the fences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Then there was a rupture in the relationship and Musk departed, although they seem to have mended fences.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Power tools buzzed, debris was cleared, fences were mended, holes were dug, machines were repaired or replaced, beams and walls and roofs went up, equipment and pipes and wires were installed.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Witnesses said the bull disappeared through a fenced area at the rear of the car park and into fields behind it.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
It is fenced in and gilded, with literal gold.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
On the Estonian side, antitank obstacles called dragon’s teeth are splayed along a small section of the riverbank, fenced in by barbed wire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The issue is that once-free premium features are fenced off at higher prices, and the more-cost-effective options work nowhere near as well.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The cows on these “farms” spend their time in a fenced lot eating organic grain except for the three times a day they are hooked up to milking machines.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Curb-edge fencing can stop foot traffic dashing across a six-lane-wide arterial, and so can pedestrian bridges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Picard is a man given to philosophical debates and genteel pursuits like horseback riding and fencing.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
According to the spokesman, legal action by Buckinghamshire Council had resulted in security fencing being removed.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Olympic trials and was recruited to Northwestern University’s Division I fencing team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Help me make the Middlefield Prep fencing team.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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