wall
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Some customers who were initially denied refunds told the Journal that when they tried to contest the decisions through the company’s only sanctioned avenue for legal disputes—private arbitration—they hit a wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s how your body moves, whether or not you’re a professional dancer looking into a wall of mirrors or just a woman passing her reflection on her way out the door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Block described staring up at the gallery wall, transfixed by the horror.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The 1,350-square-foot original structure boasts two bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room with a glass wall and Bear Valley stone fireplace, and a kitchen with warm-wood cabinets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
There the prisoners who had been ahead of me were tugging their dresses over their heads and lining up against the rear wall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
In the western city of Herat, notices posted on the walls of a university and its dorm warned that anyone caught with a smartphone on campus would face "legal action".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
This refers to measurements showing how a wireless radio signal changes as it travels through an environment and reflects from walls, furniture, people, and other objects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
His video, which rapidly surged to more than 750,000 views, shows his vehicle approaching an unfinished wooden guard hut with stud walls still visible on the outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Overlapping action figures, posters and teddy bears also cover Martin's walls and ceilings – his collectables consist of "anything unusual", but he's mostly inspired by Hollywood.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
I guess if there were only six of us training here, walls were kind of pointless.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Anderon will be walled off from the rest of IBM, and plans to raise additional investment and sell silicon wafers to other quantum-computing firms, many of whom have already expressed interest, Gambetta said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Female CJ7 and male 022 laid four eggs at their nest site in a walled garden near Poole Harbour in Dorset for the third year in a row in April.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
The dig revealed a walled complex that had remained largely undisturbed since Roman times.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
Beyond security concerns, authoritarian leaders often house senior officials on military bases or within walled compounds as a way of minimizing the possibility of a coup.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
At the foot of the walled hill the way ran under the shadow of many mounds, high and green.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
A. Prenups are no longer just for the ultrawealthy walling off family money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
America has prospered for centuries not by walling itself off but by attracting people who bring energy, ideas, and investment.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
On Sunday, day three of the protests, National Guard troops arrived to LA and were seen walling off protesters outside of a federal building that contains a detention centre.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
Work crews followed them in, razing trees and greenery and walling off the space by double-stacking heavy metal cargo containers around the entire park perimeter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Crawling in backwards, she piled the scooped-out chunks in the entrance hole, walling herself up in the freezing darkness.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
