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fencing

[fen-sing] / ˈfɛn sɪŋ /
NOUN
foils
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"The acquisition of The Turf is a continuation of the strategy to protect the future of the club and its interests by ring fencing key areas related to the life of the club."

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

Our U.S. employees turn bare metal into products like aircraft components, fencing, windows, accessibility ramps, truck bodies, solar racking and thousands of other products.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Since the 12th century BC, fencing has been a source of both combat and entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Coach Mustilli began by telling me that fencing saber is all about speed and strategy.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle

The air, which had before been charged with little suspicions, toy fencings, as it were, between people of no great importance, was now informed with something more pressing, more imminent, more real.

From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.

From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable

His blockings, hedgings, and fencings have spoiled the expanse of hillside and vale in much the same manner as in Albion.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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