shutter
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He used a slow shutter speed to photograph it before it hopped back into the bushes.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Despite Freedom National’s mixed record—it would ultimately shutter in 1990—the bank was a community pillar that provided financing to many black-owned businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Orchid, 43, said the point of starting the landfill litigation was to shutter the dump and squeeze out enough money from the owners for her sick neighbors to move out of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The company is the latest L.A. dance troupe to shutter in recent years, joining L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
When I got the courage to crack open the shutter, at first I couldn’t make out who was out there.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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"We have had to make this upsetting and difficult decision to pull the shutters down for the very last time," they said.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The two of them live on-site in what looks like a family home straight out of a 1990s Disney film, a white colonial home with blue shutters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Reflective films, blinds, shutters, awnings and shaded roofs can all reduce heat gain.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The streets were deserted, metal shutters drawn and houses closed up, as wildfires drove residents and tourists away during the peak summer season.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hurriedly, they began swinging the wooden shutters over their windows.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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Some of the shuttered schools, for instance, were found to have churned out commercial driver’s licenses within 24 to 48 hours, and some didn’t even have trucks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Several other IAP officials took on instrumental roles in American Muslims for Palestine shortly after IAP was shuttered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ever since that Ontario park, Marineland, shuttered in 2024, there has been a scramble to find homes for 30 beluga whales who were once kept there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Schools were shuttered as smoke swathed the city in Nevada, near the California border, home to around 280,000 people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
It has fourteen rooms, most of which are shuttered during the winter months.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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This year, the West Sacramento-based company is shuttering its store in Brentwood on Nov. 3 and a store in Elko on Dec. 8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Tyson Foods is planning on shuttering a major beef processing plant and selling another, the latest moves by the meatpacking giant to pull back from the beleaguered beef business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Analysts at Citi said in a note Monday that Frontier would be a “direct beneficiary” of Spirit’s shuttering.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
This reorganization will include shuttering 56 of 77 research stations studying climatological and ecological changes across the country.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
He tried to do everything as quickly as possible, the shuttering of windows, and locking of doors.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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