wall
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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
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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
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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
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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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