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wall

[wawl] / wɔl /


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Along the disused line from Woljeong-ri towards Baengmagoji station to the south -- the section to be restored under the peace project -- vegetation crowds both sides of the tracks, nearly swallowing a stone wall.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

"You won't necessarily be able to insulate every single wall," Morton says, "but by even doing the 50% best is actually massive in terms of energy bills."

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Understanding who is responsible for what work and to what degree requires consulting a floor plan, a checklist and the booklet: an awkward juggling act that would have been eased by some wall labels.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

From the damage—a gaping hole in one wall and concrete falling from the ceiling—the home won’t be an option this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

An image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus dominates one wall.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

In 1988, he founded WallBuilders, named for a biblical passage in which the Jewish people rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The most disruptive part of the retrofit work was carried out first, and included the insulation of shared walls, flooring and the roof.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The dogs’ sleeping quarters are modeled after the park’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, with its fort-like corridors made of sun-dried brick, the walls strewn with overgrown jungle vines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake caused cracks in walls and sent debris falling in Granada on Tuesday, lightly injuring three people, officials said, days after a slightly stronger quake hit the southern Spanish city.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

In wood-and-glass cases or resting on hanging shelves on the walls are specialty revolvers and sidearms.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

The osprey returned to the nest in a walled garden on 25 March, male 022 arrived the following day and the pair became settled.

From BBC Apr. 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

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

Also on Heritage Crafts' red list is dry stone walling - an ancient method of building structures from interlocking stones without using any mortar.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

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

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

Jasmine thrust a hand up, as if walling off the rest of TJ's words.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds




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