scaling

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Images on social media showed a person scaling the fence in a costume that included a smiley face head with sunglasses, prompting the monkeys to scatter.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Regardless, at the age of four he broke records by scaling Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Surveillance camera footage captured Mott scaling an 8-foot fence topped with barbed wire at the perimeter of the airport in just 15 seconds, then walking across the runway.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

“We’ll send tiny racks of machines and have them in satellites, test them out, and then start scaling from there,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a Fox News interview in November.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

As it was, Stannis would hardly need scaling ladders to storm the walls.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin