fence
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No participant is deemed too insignificant—down to the man who drove a tractor through a border fence that day.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Footage purportedly of Sunday's incident filmed by other zoogoers and shared on social media shows a person wearing a costume and carrying a stuffed toy jumping over a fence and into the monkey enclosure.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Images on social media showed a person scaling the fence in a costume that included a smiley face head with sunglasses, prompting the monkeys to scatter.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
The short right-field fence was Santa Margarita’s favorite target, with six home runs going there.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 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
Vocabulary lists containing fence
"The History Teacher" by Billy Collins
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