gate
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It’s at the TSA gate of every airport in the country.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
In response, the County closed Westward Beach Road past the pay gate and the 373-spot parking lot for the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
A police officer buzzed the gate of her home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Footage showed migrants swimming and using inflatable rings and other flotation devices to swim to Ceuta on Thursday, while others ran through a gate in the border fence.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
You walk toward the gate, the too-high grass tickling your calves.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In recent weeks, officers have broadened their approach to make more arrests near gates and ticket counters at airports from San Francisco to Miami and Kansas City, Mo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In short: Wilson snuck a 2,700-year-old poem through the gates of mainstream taste — and after that victory, her arrogance left her marooned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
He said: "As a kid, you start opening gates, feeding lambs at lambing time and you get a bit more involved until eventually you're driving tractors, shearing sheep and all the rest of it."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Its chief ambition is endurance: it must survive transit, uncertain demand and an unknowable stretch between gates.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
The job of closing those massive gates fell to fire brigades.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
A buyer working in the industry paid $70 million for a gated estate in Hillsborough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those who can drive claim an ever-larger share of public space, while walking becomes a leisure activity confined to gated communities, parks or gym treadmills.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“A once-in-a-generation Hollywood Hills estate, this extraordinary 6.5-acre gated compound offers exceptional privacy, breathtaking panoramic views, and an unrivaled legacy of ownership,” the listing reads.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
One resident also told the newsrooms that they spotted Paxton in the gated community.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Beyond the gated community at Alexandria, then, Hellenistic Egypt was a stewpot of roiling antagonisms, contained only by an elaborate system of regulations, appeasement, and, if necessary, military force.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
PSPOs replace earlier measures such as designated public place orders, gating orders, and dog control orders.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Interval funds operate with defined liquidity windows and often include redemption limits, which can lead to gating in periods of elevated withdrawal requests.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026
The platform has “age gating requirements,” she said, and its marketing isn’t focused specifically on college students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Overall: Aligned with a positive macro regime with selective, income-seeking markets thanks to low volatility and improving technicals—but fundamental cleanup remains the gating factor for sustained rerating.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
"Oh, no, sir," said Stalky cheerfully; for a week's gating in the summer term is serious.
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
