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fencing

[fen-sing] / ˈfɛn sɪŋ /
NOUN
foils
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She wrote how the farmers were "heroes" and now needed help to rebuild fencing destroyed by flame, as well as cover the cost of emergency feed and water for their animals during heatwave conditions.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

City workers came to clean up the fencing this week, and it was the first time she’s seen a single step taken on the project.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

It added, “The rush to complete the project led to hasty and botched work that was not remediated before the project was finished and the fencing removed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to visit the frontier zone on Wednesday, where workers have in recent weeks taken down the old chain-link fencing between Gibraltar and Spain.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

My body felt strange in the neutral fencing position with my knees bent and pointed outward.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

As Pascal to Escobar, so is Palestrina to Master Hugues; quibbles, shams, fencings with truth, overlay God’s gold with the cobwebs of tradition, and must be brushed away.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.

From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable

Ha! ha! my dearest," thought he, "I knew, notwithstanding all your beautiful startings and fencings, that matters would come to this.

From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

His blockings, hedgings, and fencings have spoiled the expanse of hillside and vale in much the same manner as in Albion.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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