gate
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The staff member, who left the school after him, "had probably wanted to close the gate", he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Want to accompany a friend or family member to their gate or greet them upon arrival?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Within a few weeks, he called the Los Angeles Fire Department and filed a complaint, and soon after there was a lock on the gate again, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
It has lights and makes warning noises when the gate is not shut.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Then we all squealed once more like pigs under a gate – louder.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Andrew Franks, who the court heard opened the synagogue compound gates to Al-Shamie, was also given interested person status, but the coroner said this did not imply any "criticism or culpability" on his behalf.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But it regained its edge during the government shutdown earlier this year, and its new biometric gates, which eliminate some steps for members, are a hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The initial proposal called for green wrought-iron fencing around both sides of MacArthur Park, with gates at eight existing entry and exit points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Using those logical qubits, the team carried out 2,415 logical two-qubit operations and 468 logical "T gates," two measures that reflect the complexity of the quantum circuit.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
I could not bring myself to sound a whistle or to scold, or to consider gates or curfews.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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To get there, you drive deep into rural Leicestershire, to a gated house where you're greeted by his wife, Amy, and two gorgeous but "unruly" dogs.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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 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
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
I parked and found my way to the prison entrance and walked inside the main building with its dark corridors and gated hallways, where metal bars barricaded every access point.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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If funds keep having to pay out 5% of their assets quarter after quarter, some might be forced into fire sales or could freeze withdrawals altogether, 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
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
Physical infrastructure such as computing and power remain gating factors to the development of AI, and adoption of enterprise technology is a very slow process.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
Drysdale sent out his scout to order his punishment as he might have ordered a waistcoat, presented old Copas with a half-sovereign, and then dismissed punishment and gating from his mind.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes