wall off
phrasal verb
walled off; walling off; walls off
: to separate (something) from the area around it with a wall
The school walled off the playground from the parking lot.
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Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles hit a residential building there, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and ripping the walls off multiple apartments.
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Ami Bentov, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles had struck a residential building, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and pulling the walls off multiple apartments.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
By Thursday, the area surrounding 26 Federal Plaza had been walled off by a maze of barricades.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 June 2025
Rather than walling off its chip and platform architecture, Nvidia is inviting the industry in—with the caveat that the core still runs through its GPU platform and interconnect fabric.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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Ami Bentov, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva said Iranian missiles had struck a residential building, charring concrete walls, shattering windows and pulling the walls off multiple apartments.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025
By Thursday, the area surrounding 26 Federal Plaza had been walled off by a maze of barricades.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 June 2025
Rather than walling off its chip and platform architecture, Nvidia is inviting the industry in—with the caveat that the core still runs through its GPU platform and interconnect fabric.
—Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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“Wall off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20off. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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