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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

Marcus Smart tried a lob to Ayton, but the center couldn’t corral the pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 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

The gated lot has a chicken coop, a horse corral, an organic garden and fruit trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

The last thing to go was the contents of the livestock corral, mostly horses, including Nancy’s horse, big, fat Babe, who was much beyond her prime.

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

The one about the dolphin that saves everyone’s lives and corrals the bad guys until the sheriff arrives.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Los Angeles police corralled and arrested scores of minibike riders on Sunday, thwarting a takeover of 6th Street Bridge, police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Now food stalls are limited, corralled onto a single block.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

And it has to do it without the star power it corralled in the past.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Eventually, 5,000 angry people surround the local prison, where the city’s doctors had been corralled for their safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

From the moment he could walk, Louie couldn’t bear to be corralled.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

The need for sustained diplomacy, coalition-building and corralling of private capital makes that impractical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

Mia sprayed the counter and swept the sponge across it, corralling crumbs into the sink.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng


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