fence
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Still, for anyone remaining on the fence, it might not help that some of the pastors who’ve put their support behind Ramaswamy are steeped in controversy.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
Yet the incorporation into this already complex dynamic of the class divide—which figures here as something like a barbed-wire fence that’s draped in velvet—further sharpens the exploitative edge of nonfiction cinema’s natural voyeurism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
After losing their Solano County home to wildfire in 2020, the couple rebuilt with a steel fence, an aluminum patio pergola and a roughly 10-foot concrete and rock buffer around their new house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Two pitches later, he watched another ball fly over the fence, this time off Garrett Mitchell’s bat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Lloyd was chunking rocks at fence posts and diving in and out of the ditch with J.W.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Saturday's blaze "spread rapidly due to high winds" and had torn through the fences of the base, the Municipal District of Wainwright said.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Then there was a rupture in the relationship and Musk departed, although they seem to have mended fences.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Rende's company in North Jackson, Ohio, makes and distributes aluminum building products used in fixtures like fences.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Despite chronic electricity shortages across North Korea, areas around electric fences along the border with China are brightly lit so that guard posts can easily spot potential defectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
This is where we were now, up against the high fences surrounding Four Winds Resort, according to the faux-marble sign at the end of the weed-cracked driveway on the other side.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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On a recent Sunday, resident Filiberto Reyes thought his beloved husky had once again gotten out of the fenced front yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
It is fenced in and gilded, with literal gold.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The team had tested public land around former landfill or industrial sites, she emphasised, rather than fenced off areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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
Actually, it made that house seem all the more scary, because behind its iron fence, it looked like some strange beast that had to be kept specially separate and fenced off from the others.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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Ron Hernandez, coach and vice president of Metro Little League, said that the city locked up the dugouts and installed some metal fencing to prevent access to the baseball fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The protest involved dozens of people walking on public footpaths and then going through a gap in the metal fencing around the site to access the private land.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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
Homendy said she walked the path of destruction, seeing the tire marks cut through the grass outside the runway—and navigation equipment, air bags and fencing strewn over the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
She cultivated wildflowers by the mailbox, relocated stones to form natural fencing.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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