shutter
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One Vietnamese shop owner in the Mitte district near the former Berlin Wall rolls down his shutter but leaves his door ajar for locals, who know to sneak in for milk and vegetables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe: dark matter.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
The burger giant is the latest fast-food chain to shutter locations as the industry struggles with rising labor and real estate costs in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
There was just the constant shutter of photographs being taken.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The shutter had been pulled aside from the window of the large bedroom in the west wing, and someone was standing there, looking down upon the lawns.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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For now, standard European advice remains to close the shutters and windows during the day and to stay indoors and hydrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Longer term, he said the UK needed a more strategic approach, including collecting better data, targeted retrofitting of existing homes and learning from hotter countries through measures such as external shutters and reflective exterior paint.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Some people clapped rhythmically, while others pounded on the metal shutters of closed Palestinian shops.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Likewise, Andy’s story starts when a magnate shutters her current job at a newspaper called the New York Vanguard, firing her and her colleagues for a $500-million tax write-off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
They marched down to the enormous house, with colorful shutters that didn’t seem to match.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Many schools and offices were shuttered on Friday across northern and eastern Taiwan, including Taipei.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Jacksonville Beach, Fla., police issued a similar caution in April about the shuttered Adventure Landing amusement park: “We are aware of a Tik-Tok challenge to explore the property.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Others point out many schools across the country already shuttered for multiple days during last week's heatwave, bringing disruption to learning.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
The shuttered Hello Kitty experiment animated yet another challenge in scaling raves across Dave & Buster’s many outposts: the sense that these parties are once-in-a-lifetime events that can’t be missed.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
The houses along the street were shuttered tight and dark.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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“There is no evidence that the Board took account of its full range of statutory obligations in determining that a wholesale shuttering of the Kennedy Center was appropriate,” Cooper wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Bessent also played down the economic impact of the Iran war, despite the rising cost of living caused by high oil prices following Iran's shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
This reorganization will include shuttering 56 of 77 research stations studying climatological and ecological changes across the country.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
And while OpenAI’s shuttering of its memory-intensive AI-video generator, Sora, may have been viewed as another negative for the memory trade, Moore thinks OpenAI is simply looking to put its compute resources elsewhere.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
Mr. Gideon leans back suddenly, his expression shuttering.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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