gates

[geyts] / geɪts /

NOUN

movable barrier at entrance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bar door doorway exit fence port

STRONG

access conduit egress gateway issue lock opening passage portal portcullis slammer turnstile way weir

WEAK

revolving door

Example Sentences

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Bill Gates has said humans won’t be needed “for most things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“The tariffs haven’t given us a pricing advantage,” Gates said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Buffett was asked about his views on the Gates Foundation and Gates and answered cautiously.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Before the iPhone, Apple shook up home computing with the 1984 Macintosh, whose icon-based interface and mouse made computing accessible beyond specialists -- and sparked a legendary rivalry between Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

‘For there are other powers and realms that you know not, and they are hidden from you. Anduin the Great flows past many shores, ere it comes to Argonath and the Gates of Gondor.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien