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  • present participle of fence.
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fencing

[fen-sing] / ˈfɛn sɪŋ /
NOUN
foils
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City workers came to clean up the fencing this week, and it was the first time she’s seen a single step taken on the project.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

It added, “The rush to complete the project led to hasty and botched work that was not remediated before the project was finished and the fencing removed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 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

You wouldn't know the hub was here because the outdoor space for basketball, chess and boxing is blocked off by high steel fencing.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

“You’re fencing saber not épée,” Coach Mustilli shouted.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle

A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.

From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable

The air, which had before been charged with little suspicions, toy fencings, as it were, between people of no great importance, was now informed with something more pressing, more imminent, more real.

From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

Ha! ha! my dearest," thought he, "I knew, notwithstanding all your beautiful startings and fencings, that matters would come to this.

From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith




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