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shutter

noun as in blind

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He channels his inner Darth Vader but instead of "the force" he uses a long exposure photography technique, keeping the shutter open for anything from 30 seconds to 20 minutes.

From BBC

In October, though, Phillips 66 announced it will shutter the complex toward the end of next year.

The decision by Phillips 66 this week to shutter its refinery in Wilmington next year will wipe out more than 8% of the state’s crude oil processing capacity.

It was a message so threatening that it could be exorcized only by three days of Senate hearings and the establishment of a Comics Code Authority that gutted the comics industry and forced E.C.’s horror line to shutter.

From Slate

On Friday, 64 years later, Alan pulled down the shutter for the final time on local retail institution AE Hartley & Son.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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