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Cordoning off their share of terrace was a pane of pebbled glass, through which Kertész could make out the forms of vacationing neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Cordoning off certain areas, he says, would create a “closed environment” and make it harder for results to “be reviewed, replicated, tested, and challenged by other scientists.”

From Science Magazine • Apr. 4, 2024

Cordoning off the monument, he said, glorifies the “Lost Cause,” a nostalgic view that bathes the antebellum South in “magnolia and moonlight” and downplays slavery.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2020

Cordoning off DLC maps and their player base just seems to fly in the face of the spirit of the game.

From Forbes • Jan. 13, 2015

Cordoning off peninsulas would also be expensive to maintain and hard to patrol.

From Time Magazine Archive