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shutter

[shuht-er] / ˈʃʌt ər /
NOUN
blind
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This would be a first for me: I had opened more than 15 restaurants across New York City and had yet to shutter a single one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Other grocery store chains such as Grocery Outlet and Kroger have announced plans to shutter California stores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The sepia footage and slow shutter speeds of the cameras that captured his magic during his playing days simply cannot dull his brilliance.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Despite Freedom National’s mixed record—it would ultimately shutter in 1990—the bank was a community pillar that provided financing to many black-owned businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

In his right hand, he’d hold the shutter release and a toy of some kind, which he’d shake and rattle to get our attention.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Sellers have adapted accordingly, she added, placing greater emphasis in listings on features linked to summer comfort such as air conditioning and shutters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Below the window is the phrase “How long can you survive?” written on the blue shutters of the “house.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Reflective films, blinds, shutters, awnings and shaded roofs can all reduce heat gain.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Many of the continent’s buildings lack design features that would keep them cooler in the summer, such as shutters to block out the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Mr. Stone walked over to the shutters and started to tug them open.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

In March 2020, the Smithsonian shuttered its museums for the pandemic.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Whereas once closing plants in Germany would have been unthinkable, the company has now shuttered one in Dresden and may shut down four more.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

After the same federal judge rejected the board’s latest naming workaround on Tuesday, the administration abruptly shuttered the building.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Square footage of the shuttered San Francisco Centre, once the city’s largest mall and a thriving retail hub anchored by Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Where we going to sleep, Pan?” she said as they trudged down a street of closed and shuttered shops.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

The group said that a consequence of the ban could be refineries shuttering in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

They must make a choice: help each other as a global village or repeat COVID-19 style global shuttering.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

This year, the West Sacramento-based company is shuttering its store in Brentwood on Nov. 3 and a store in Elko on Dec. 8.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

But in the past half century of mergers and consolidations, it was briefly a casualty, shuttering in 1985.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

She straightened and stepped away, her expression shuttering.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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