fencing
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According to the spokesman, legal action by Buckinghamshire Council had resulted in security fencing being removed.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Homendy said she walked the path of destruction, seeing the tire marks cut through the grass outside the runway—and navigation equipment, air bags and fencing strewn over the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The department said fencing the space would allow the city better access to manage the park and oversee the property when it’s closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Not only would I have to learn an entirely new fencing technique, but the system of scoring was also totally different.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
Ha! ha! my dearest," thought he, "I knew, notwithstanding all your beautiful startings and fencings, that matters would come to this.
From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
As Pascal to Escobar, so is Palestrina to Master Hugues; quibbles, shams, fencings with truth, overlay God’s gold with the cobwebs of tradition, and must be brushed away.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
The air, which had before been charged with little suspicions, toy fencings, as it were, between people of no great importance, was now informed with something more pressing, more imminent, more real.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
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