wall
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By placing a tether around captive moths and projecting stars on the wall, researchers last year showed how Bogongs used the Milky Way.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Given his walking difficulties from childhood polio, I was advised never to insert myself between him and a wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The wall text for each piece, which also includes a QR code for audio narration, is composed by RM in both languages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
“She kind of looked at the writing on the wall … She was like, ‘this is the future,’” Mound told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
He points to the side wall of the canvas tent.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"It was an outhouse. There were brick walls but it was essentially a shed," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Romero grew up in a Catholic household in Barstow, with pictures of the Pope and President Kennedy on the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Inside a tank, sound can reflect repeatedly from the walls, producing complicated acoustic patterns that may make an animal's response harder to interpret.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Waterfall island kitchen with quartz counters, custom cabinetry, large dining area & hidden pantry. Sun-drenched family room with walls of sliding glass doors that bring the outdoors in,” the listing adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
We plunged through a small gap of daylight just as the walls thundered down behind us.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
But as the river was walled in against flooding, more people built even closer to it, and floodwater had no place to go to recharge the water table — nowhere but down and out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The agents were being tested on systems that were supposed to be walled off from the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tokenized deposits typically are issued on private blockchains or walled gardens where one bank’s network isn’t necessarily connected to that of another bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Saving in a tax-advantaged 529 means the contributed funds grow tax-free and are walled away from other regular family savings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The houses on this road were crowded together and shared common walls, with small, walled yards in front buffering them from the street.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Earlier this year, the militia tightened its hold on El Fasher by walling it off with a sand berm, according to satellite photos published in August by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
America has prospered for centuries not by walling itself off but by attracting people who bring energy, ideas, and investment.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
To make ends meet, Matthew already has to spend time away from the farm doing freelance dry stone walling work, and Liz runs a full-time business, with another part-time job to keep the family afloat.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024
Work crews followed them in, razing trees and greenery and walling off the space by double-stacking heavy metal cargo containers around the entire park perimeter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Jasmine thrust a hand up, as if walling off the rest of TJ's words.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
