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entrance

[en-truhns] / ˈɛn trəns /




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Aerial images of the dwelling reveal that much of the land has been elegantly manicured, with a sloped driveway leading to the main entrance of the property.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

When Alice was unemployed Savage covered her entrance cost every single time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Giant screens display recreations of bunks in Nazi concentration camps and the entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

For the six-story glass rotunda that serves as the entrance, architects picked wood from the Republic of Congo and white granite from India’s Kashmir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

A few humble huts stand near the entrance to the town.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Among the new rules proposed is a ban on stopping within 15 meters of the entrances and exits of these venues.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15 to 17-year-olds since late September, complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Residents noticed increased security in recent weeks—more police patrolling the surrounding area and entrances to the base blocked by heavy equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Soon, local men were standing guard in shifts at the two entrances into town, aiming their weapons at trucks laden with freshly picked avocados and cars packed with farmhands as they demanded identity documents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Unpleasant loop entrances serve a purpose—normals tend to avoid them, so we peculiars have them all to ourselves.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

But innovation will remain a hard sell so long as users remain entranced by the big blur, where art becomes media, media becomes content, and content becomes time tossed into the wind.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

How Scotland, and other parts of the world, became entranced by the fairytale only for the reality of sport's essential brutality to hit them square between the eyes at Celtic Park on denouement day.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The two actors—and Mr. Rash’s script—make them human, and genuine, and kept this viewer close to entranced despite the staginess of the production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Still, it didn’t take long until the video for BTS’ “Life Goes On” entranced Jimenez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

My mom stares into the four cups of tea at the counter, entranced by the little milk eddies she stirs up in each one.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

As the star of Misty Green, Eleazar is an absolute mess, but an entrancing one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Brazil now need major surgery - starting with the area of the field where they used to be so strong, so creative, so entrancing - the midfield.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The 17th-century painter’s depiction of the biblical figure, who has left behind her life of sin, is a work of entrancing details and pervading stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

What’s most entrancing, however, is Poots, who brings to bear the fullness of her being without ever tipping over into “showcase” acting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

He reads and rereads the words of Herr Friedrick Thiessen, finding them both familiar and entrancing.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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