gate
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We ducked under a gate and surrounded Ernie as he headed to the locker room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“I can’t get the image out of my mind … him standing on the gate, screaming, ‘Help me!
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
This will be because they feel they can get more spectators through the gate, and/or provide better value for money.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
After that, they added the high κ hafnium oxide gate dielectric.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
It was a big pen, with a gate.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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Those unable to rescue their animals left their gates open in the hope the animals would find their own way to safety, local residents told Canadian broadcaster CBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In short: Wilson snuck a 2,700-year-old poem through the gates of mainstream taste — and after that victory, her arrogance left her marooned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Local social media pages often show cars parked in front of farm gates, passing places and even private fields.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Its chief ambition is endurance: it must survive transit, uncertain demand and an unknowable stretch between gates.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Assuming the key card works, we still need to get security to open the gates into the lab area.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Separated only by a gated alley, the fenced-off facility is about 100 feet from the nearest home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
A buyer working in the industry paid $70 million for a gated estate in Hillsborough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those who can drive claim an ever-larger share of public space, while walking becomes a leisure activity confined to gated communities, parks or gym treadmills.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
I know a recently widowed 85-year-old who liked living in a gated community in South Florida for residents 55 and up.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Long Beach is so different than the gated community I grew up in.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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Analysts warn continued outflows could force private-credit funds into fire sales or to freeze withdrawals, a process called gating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
PSPOs replace earlier measures such as designated public place orders, gating orders, and dog control orders.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“If these companies didn’t have gating provisions, this would be real trouble.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
The funds started gating their exits and giving investors smaller and smaller prorated portions of the cash investors sought.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
Then I saw another, who was standing at the corner of a street gating at some strange antics which were being played by a company of the townsmen.
From The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes by Samuel Wilberforce