wall
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The robots will be expected to dig up lunar material, drive over obstacles and use the material to form a wall.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
There were handheld American flags on skinny sticks, midsize ones to display on a wall and majestic formal flags adorned with silky gold fringe.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
By placing a tether around captive moths and projecting stars on the wall, researchers last year showed how Bogongs used the Milky Way.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
One day, at a job selling novelty wood roses to supermarkets and convenience stores, his boss walked in and threw a sticky octopus on the wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I flatten myself against the wall of the shed and try not to breathe.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
He said heavy rain could overwhelm drainage systems and penetrate walls, causing damp and erosion, while repeated cycles of wetting, drying, freezing and thawing could harm stonework.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Memorabilia from the court victory hang on its walls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Renderings introducing the project never showed the walls and fences that now cover the plaza’s perimeter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Inside a tank, sound can reflect repeatedly from the walls, producing complicated acoustic patterns that may make an animal's response harder to interpret.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The leaflets are then loaded on planes and dropped across the countryside, while posters— painted by some of Japan’s most talented artists—are pasted on the walls of schools, churches, and other prominent buildings.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
But as the river was walled in against flooding, more people built even closer to it, and floodwater had no place to go to recharge the water table — nowhere but down and out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Stepping over a pile of discarded Nerf guns, we pass through a gate into a secret walled garden.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Polymarket, which operates an offshore service that is supposed to be walled off to Americans, also offers contracts on military events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Saving in a tax-advantaged 529 means the contributed funds grow tax-free and are walled away from other regular family savings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
All five women moved to a secret location 40 miles northeast of Moscow, a walled compound filled with people working on the Soviet space program—scientists, engineers, and cosmonauts.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
Earlier this year, the militia tightened its hold on El Fasher by walling it off with a sand berm, according to satellite photos published in August by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
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
To make ends meet, Matthew already has to spend time away from the farm doing freelance dry stone walling work, and Liz runs a full-time business, with another part-time job to keep the family afloat.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024
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
The Poor Fellows went before them, forcing men aside with their shields, walling off a narrow path.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
