perimeter
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Some days in middle school, during gym class, my daughter went outside and walked the perimeter of the school.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Aegis, one of the company’s four-legged bots, is being tested for security and perimeter control purposes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Moroccan police made "no serious attempt to try to reduce, disperse or move the mass of people away from the border perimeter", the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The fire service has said the perimeter of the blaze has been brought under control.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Which isn’t exactly true, because all the motion sensors are on the perimeter of our property, but Jacqui doesn’t need to know that.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Police may close roads, establish perimeters, kettle crowds, redirect traffic, block movement, and call those acts public order.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Setting those perimeters impressed producers while also shaping her personal and creative evolution.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
It would require combat troops to secure perimeters, engineers with excavating equipment to search through debris and check for mines and booby traps, and special-operations forces with expertise in handling nuclear material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
"However, officers were required to enforce... life-saving guidelines when crowds later exceeded authorised capacity and seemingly attempted to breach security perimeters into the Old City," they said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Tall battle standards of cloth-of-gold flapped atop lofty poles along the perimeters of the camp.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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