gate
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So what is Bucky Brooks doing before sunrise, unlocking the gate outside the Granada Hills High football field?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
You have to wonder how the Generals’ unwelcome win would be remembered if it had hurt the Globetrotters’ gate receipts.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
We ducked under a gate and surrounded Ernie as he headed to the locker room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“I can’t get the image out of my mind … him standing on the gate, screaming, ‘Help me!
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
I’ve risen to my feet without realizing it, making for the gate.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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That is, unless your plane is docked at the D gates.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
In Cambridge Saturday, several people left flowers and a card bearing Arday's name on the university gates in the city centre.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The situation in Qusra began on Sunday when settlers blocked the road to the Palestinian families' gates and cut off their power and water supplies.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the interactions that follow, which appear to take place between two different gates, staff recognize him, inform him he has no reservation and—according to Walker—eventually call the police to escort him away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The words burst out of me like racehorses galloping from their gates.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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Taylor’s home studio was built in a guest house behind his family’s home in Hidden Hills, a gated community on the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
I know a recently widowed 85-year-old who liked living in a gated community in South Florida for residents 55 and up.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
I guess maybe it’s not rich by normal standards, but it was built in the last ten years and it’s gated.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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Analysts warn continued outflows could force private-credit funds into fire sales or to freeze withdrawals, a process called gating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
PSPOs replace earlier measures such as designated public place orders, gating orders, and dog control orders.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“A couple of years ago, it was all about the chips being the gating factor,” Matthew Sallee, head of investments at Tortoise Capital, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 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
Mother was inexorable on such occasions, and never had there been a time on record, no matter what the weeping or wailing, when a gating had been lifted.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely