Thesaurus / fence
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That means each team faces a lot more uncertainty about whether to buy or sell, especially when it comes to the large middle group of teams on the fence about which strategy is best.
SEPARATING MLB’S BUYERS FROM SELLERS AT THE WEIRDEST TRADE DEADLINE EVERNEIL PAINE (NEIL.PAINE@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)AUGUST 28, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTWe chained ourselves to the fences of Soviet consulates and embassies.
THE FAILED HIJACKING THAT REMADE THE SOVIET UNIONEROMO EGBEJULEAUGUST 24, 2020OZYAbout 18 months later, the bull tossed Fisher into the air like an inconvenience and rammed him into the fence.
BIOTECHNOLOGY COULD CHANGE THE CATTLE INDUSTRY. WILL IT SUCCEED?DYLLAN FURNESSAUGUST 16, 2020SINGULARITY HUB NBC 7 reports that the city recently put up a fence to stop the gatherings after getting reports that not all the participants were wearing masks or social distancing.
MORNING REPORT: RURAL DISTRICTS STILL SCRAMBLING TO PREPARE FOR ONLINE LEARNINGVOICE OF SAN DIEGOAUGUST 12, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOA gutted ballfield surrounded by a 10-foot chain-link fence is the only space resembling a park in the Sherman Heights neighborhood.
IF YOUR LOCAL PARK SUCKS, THIS IS PROBABLY WHYMACKENZIE ELMERJULY 6, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOI saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDAnother fence: who would furnish that two hundred and fifty dollars and secure him for the remainder?
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXThey stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINI raised my pipe above my head and hurled it against the fence, where it crashed into a score of pieces.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDIn 1837 the churchyard had some pleasant walks along the sides, bounded by a low wooden fence, and skirted with trees.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLWORDS RELATED TO FENCE
- altercate
- argue over
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- blow hot and cold
- carp
- catch at straws
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- niggle
- nit-pick
- nitpick
- paralogize
- pick to pieces
- pretend
- prevaricate
- put up an argument
- set to
- shift
- spar
- split hairs
- squabble
- talk back
- waffle
- wrangle
- altercate
- argue over
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- blow hot and cold
- carp
- catch at straws
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- nit-pick
- paralogize
- pettifog
- pretend
- prevaricate
- put up an argument
- set to
- shift
- spar
- split hairs
- squabble
- talk back
- waffle
- wrangle
- bandit
- brigand
- buccaneer
- burglar
- cardsharper
- cat burglar
- cattle thief
- cheat
- chiseler
- con artist
- corsair
- crook
- desperado
- despoiler
- fence
- forager
- fraud
- grafter
- hijacker
- holdup artist
- housebreaker
- looter
- marauder
- mugger
- operator
- pickpocket
- pilferer
- pillager
- pirate
- plunderer
- prowler
- punk
- raider
- rustler
- safecracker
- sandbagger
- second-story operator
- shoplifter
- stealer
- stickup
- swindler
- thief
- thug
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