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[fens] / fɛns /






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Rachel English, a painter in Spicewood, has watched the region change from her family’s roughly 400-acre farm, which shares a fence line with Canyon Ranch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Over the din of construction behind a spiked fence, Castle, 82, told AFP her great-great-grandparents bought the property.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

These are the first elections since the 7 October attacks, in which Hamas-led gunmen stormed through Gaza's border fence, killing almost people and taking 251 hostage.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

If the dog jumped the fence and dinged the neighbors’ cars, “you wouldn’t shake your head and lament about how the dog/whacker system had ‘gone rogue’ ” he observed.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

However, she accumulated speed on the downhill, and Clare could do nothing but shriek when she nearly bowled over the crying kits, overcorrected, then stopped a whisker away from colliding with the south fence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The greens on Barra were protected from the cows by fences, and you entered the greens through a turnstile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

“I felt like I had gone back in time. It was like those American suburban neighborhoods you see in movies — white picket fences, people walking their dogs. I knew we had to live there.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Saturday's blaze "spread rapidly due to high winds" and had torn through the fences of the base, the Municipal District of Wainwright said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Then there was a rupture in the relationship and Musk departed, although they seem to have mended fences.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

“What are those boys doing cutting fences, anyhow?”

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

During the meeting he questioned why the areas have a fence that is "only three foot" with no sign saying that chemicals are there, or why it was fenced off.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

It is fenced in and gilded, with literal gold.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

On the Estonian side, antitank obstacles called dragon’s teeth are splayed along a small section of the riverbank, fenced in by barbed wire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The issue is that once-free premium features are fenced off at higher prices, and the more-cost-effective options work nowhere near as well.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The resulting artificial habitat was meant only for humans and 'their' plants and animals, and was often fenced off by walls and hedges.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Picard is a man given to philosophical debates and genteel pursuits like horseback riding and fencing.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The protective fencing around the nesting ground was washed away in high tides earlier this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

ZVERNEC, Albania—On the doorstep of a Jared Kushner-linked development site on the Adriatic Sea, a group of determined villagers set out in late May to protest barbed-wire fencing preventing their access to a coastal peninsula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Ron Hernandez, coach and vice president of Metro Little League, said that the city locked up the dugouts and installed some metal fencing to prevent access to the baseball fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

I didn’t have any role models to look up to who looked like me in fencing, and there weren’t any other Muslim women wearing hijab at the elite levels of sport to inspire my quest.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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