wall off
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It also has a regulatory side that can wall off competition, brick by brick, protecting incumbents from challengers who lack a compliance department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The sensible response isn’t to wall off that process, but to reinforce it—by investing in education, R&D, infrastructure, and policies that keep the U.S. at the center of the global economy it helped create.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Shohei Ohtani added a second run in the eighth, belting a long homer into the batter’s eye beyond the center-field wall off reliever Ryan Zeferjahn.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025
“He has experience trying to wall off his personal life from his public life, but it’s his only living son. It’s got to be very taxing.”
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
"Oh, look," cried Ivra excitedly, almost tumbling over the edge in her endeavor to see better, "isn't that the gray wall off there?"
From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot
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