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Agathe Chateau Frilloux sprinted down a long road parallel to the Champs Elysee, her daughter and son running close behind, only just making it to their designated gate before the set cut-off time.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
We would have taken a Porsche if I was in a different gate area, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dozens of protesters rallied outside Paramount Skydance’s Melrose Ave. gate Tuesday morning to criticize the settlement agreement the company reached with California Atty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Principality Stadium's retractable roof allows organisers to capture the immense scale, atmosphere and gate revenue of a stadium show while offering full protection from the elements.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
I was beginning to get a little worried, when I heard the garden gate squeaking open.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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There’s a long walk through a tunnel to many American gates and greeters try to arrange a car if one is available, a perk typically only guaranteed if you buy Five Star Select.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In an earlier era, perhaps, Cramer’s leaks about Martian bases and wormhole gates would have remained within his insular world of UFO blogs.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Spanning 5,920 square feet, the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom residence is tucked behind gates and surrounded by mature greenery, offering plenty of privacy in the sought-after California enclave.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
In 2024, shortly after the Dodgers signed two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani, the club moved the lantern to a place of prominence outside the top-deck gates, overlooking the downtown skyline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
I turned down a side street of narrow limestone offices, stopped at the third building, and wheeled my bicycle through its wrought-iron gates.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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She is reportedly renting out a gated property in the Home Counties, according to the Sun newspaper.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
For a time, the internet did put a Band-Aid on this problem, bringing isolated communities together and providing the sort of crosstalk they couldn’t hear on the abandoned sidewalks of gated developments.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The seven-bedroom, 13-bathroom property spans more than 14,000 square feet and is located in the ultralavish gated community of North Beverly Park.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The 300-acre island is accessible only by boat or by a single gated bridge and maintains its own private police force.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Our school is gated too, and the campus has new, modern buildings with lots of windows and marigolds blooming along the walkways.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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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
Interval funds operate with defined liquidity windows and often include redemption limits, which can lead to gating in periods of elevated withdrawal requests.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026
Overall: Aligned with a positive macro regime with selective, income-seeking markets thanks to low volatility and improving technicals—but fundamental cleanup remains the gating factor for sustained rerating.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
But in this domestic forum, for smaller offences the place of fines is taken by "gating" for a certain period, during which the nocturnal enclosure of the culprit begins at some earlier hour than usual.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare