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stanchion

[stan-shuhn] / ˈstæn ʃən /


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That’s because it plans to run two lines simultaneously on either side of a new, shorter stanchion.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

Teammate Aliyah Boston tried to console Clark as she walked to the basket stanchion and tapped her forehead against it before sitting down and covering her head with a towel.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2025

The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2024

He landed near the basket stanchion and immediately began grabbing at his left knee, while teammates reacted in obvious disbelief.

From Washington Times Apr. 23, 2023

He’d leaned against the fender of Abel Martinson’s truck inspecting the hand he’d scraped that morning against a stanchion on Carl Heine’s gill-netting boat.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2025

By Sunday afternoon, plastic stanchions and red caution tape cordoned off the corner of the building, where some glass and rubble from the smashed facade still lay.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2023

These monumental photographs, each more than 6 feet tall, are framed behind glass, so installed without the intrusive stanchions.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2023

Lanterns swung from iron stanchions along the river road, swaying when-the wind blew.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The deck cabins, though yawning and seamed, were so firmly stanchioned that he could not drag out so much as a plank.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford

The doors were closed, and the windows were stanchioned with iron.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie

To that was shackled a seventy-five foot boom, and eighty-odd tons of pig-iron were cemented close down to her keel, and that floored over and stanchioned snug.

From The Seiners by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang




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