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wall

[wawl] / wɔl /


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On another wall in Inglethorpe's office is a magnetic board with headshots of every player in the academy on the left and the first team squad on the right.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ain’t that the truth; Freeman would’ve had two home runs Tuesday if Braves left fielder Mauricio Dubón hadn’t robbed him of one in the third inning with a sprinting, leaping catch at the wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The fountain has been used as a memorial site for those killed, with pictures, flowers and messages laid around the basin wall.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Beyond the rising cost of borrowing, some are questioning the risks of betting on an AI boom that could hit a wall, as the dot-com bubble did in 2000.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

She’s added a couple more photos to the clothesline that snakes across the length of the pale gray wall over her bed.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

A draft of the study didn’t propose only one solution but advocated for 23 different strategies, including bluff stabilization, catchment walls, sand placement, engineered revetments or seawalls and rail-foundation improvements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

We slide into a pleather booth beneath burnt-orange walls and televisions playing Spanish-language fútbol.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The formal dining room is to the right, while a moody sitting room with deep purple walls and coffered ceilings is to the left.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

The walls of what is thought to be one of medieval England's earliest and largest leprosy hospitals have been uncovered in Lincoln by Time Team archaeologists.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

We plunged through a small gap of daylight just as the walls thundered down behind us.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

There were small acts of resistance, as when the best wines in the cellar were secretly walled off from the Germans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

"People are also fascinated with our little walled allotment, I call that my mini woodland," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The total came out right, and, by eleven in the morning, the great walled Thieves Quarter was officially empty and padlocked.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

Among other things, Sally Millington, 45, from York, has tried bell-ringing, dry-stone walling, cliff camping, wheelchair basketball and stand-up comedy since 2018.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 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




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