cordon
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A spokesman said the impact caused a gas leak so a cordon has been put in place by firefighters and the police, with a structural engineer and a gas engineer due to attend.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Officials have built a cordon around the clutch of eggs, which lie between the shoreline and the boardwalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The cordon has also been extended to St James's Street, where an officer is standing guard.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The real Bora, 29, managed to slip through the security cordon and make a dash towards central Delhi before eventually being detained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ten or twelve of us women got up and formed a cordon around our priest.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Officers set up cordons on surrounding roads to prevent people from heading to the coast.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
At the scene, several police cordons were deployed at various locations inside and outside the station, according to images published by local media.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Almost every resident carries a private atlas of vanished places: Regal Cinema, the old Coffee House, Urdu bookshops in Daryaganj, winter evenings at India Gate before barricades and security cordons reshaped the city.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Thousands of people are spending another night away from their homes as cordons remain in place in Exmouth and Plymouth - where separate unexploded World War Two bombs were discovered on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
For Roger, bursting through the hostile cordons like an infuriated blue-bottle fly caught in the outer strands of a spider’s web, had applied a premature spark to a gunpowder train.
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
The road leading to Najib's upmarket residence was cordoned off with yellow police tape and traffic cones blocking access to the area, an AFP journalist saw at around noon.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Police cordoned off parts of Park Road and the adjoining Valley Road.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Lliani Orantes, Muñoz’s daughter and a nurse who was born in the U.S., said her father had been hauled out of the family home by federal authorities after they swarmed and cordoned off the block.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Police cordoned off most of the area around the base following the arrests on Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He had tucked Seabiscuit into a steel-doored stall and cordoned off the bam area, but the reporters were driving him to distraction.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Security was tight for the visit, with Berlin cordoning off flag-lined streets and deploying large numbers of police.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The key is ‘alignment,’ which improves capability while cordoning off dangerous knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Helicopter footage captured by NBC4 showed police tape cordoning off a section of the residential street, where a large number of emergency responders were gathered.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
That velvet rope wasn’t cordoning off anything but wishes and dreams.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2023
Video from the area appears to show heavily armed police cordoning off a commercial property in the area.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2023
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