wall off
Example Sentences
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In many places, utilities are requiring data-center developers to make large upfront payments to support the upgrades, or they are trying to wall off new investments to avoid charging other customers for the infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The sensible response isn’t to wall off that process, but to reinforce it—by investing in education, R&D, infrastructure, and policies that keep the U.S. at the center of the global economy it helped create.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025
Shohei Ohtani added a second run in the eighth, belting a long homer into the batter’s eye beyond the center-field wall off reliever Ryan Zeferjahn.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2025
It was all he could do to open it, but once in the companionway outside, he found that he could crawl along one wall, off the floor, in an inching progress.
From The Hell Ship by Palmer, Raymond Alfred
