fence
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At the border fence, parents sought reassurance from those returning, showing them pictures of their loved ones and asking for news.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
More soldiers stood guard on the small beach next to the border fence, positioned under parasols in the morning.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Neighbor Karen Estes watched over a fence with her Golden retriever, Honey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
With “Harlem Shuffle,” Whitehead begins his crime trilogy in the 1960s in a furniture store with stylish midcentury stock whose owner, Ray Carney, is trying not to be a fence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Babs comes back outside five minutes later and leans on the fence next to me.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Starting Thursday morning, more than 50,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, either by bypassing fences on land or attempting to swim along the coast.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
Footage broadcast on Spanish television showed large crowds of mostly young men swimming around breakwaters and climbing over fences to cross into Ceuta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
"When we've had to, we've been jumping over fences and breaking windows to save animals trapped inside" homes, she told AFP by telephone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Many have set up traps outside their homes, hanging sticky tape from trees and fences to trap the flies and reduce the size of the swarms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
He was apt to cross streams, climb fences, make any number of unexpected detours.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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The man appeared unresponsive and the yard was fenced, with a locked gate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"We were afraid, my house is very close, but they told us they would be in a fenced area and then move deep inside the forest," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Large fenced reserves are rare, and leopards frequently move through agricultural and urban-edge landscapes, where conflict with people is common.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Around Akron Stadium, a wide perimeter has been heavily fenced off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The field, overgrown with wildflowers and the occasional tree sapling, was nonetheless fenced in by an interweaving series of chopped logs.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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Alas, that victory was aided by a pair of crashes suffered by Kuss, the beloved Coloradan who was lucky to be saved by temporary fencing as he curled around a rocky descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to visit the frontier zone on Wednesday, where workers have in recent weeks taken down the old chain-link fencing between Gibraltar and Spain.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
There's no planning permission yet, and Rama's government says an environmental impact assessment has not even begun, but fencing and bulldozers have been seen on the site.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
At the National Mall, the fencing design for the state fair drew head shakes and confusion from some tourists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Today, like a miracle, I could see fencing clearer than I’d seen anything before.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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