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Recent Examples of railing
Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2025
Outdoor space: In classic Streamline Moderne style, the home’s top-floor patio was designed to evoke the bow of a ship, with metal railings and cover in the form of a roof overhang.
—Angela Serratore, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Whether the ball struck by Shohei Ohtani would have cleared the right-field wall at the Tokyo Dome if some fans hadn’t reached over the railing is immaterial.
—Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
The railings had ashtrays built in every 20 feet, out of an idea that walking and talking and smoking were good for idea formation.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 27 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Photo : Brian Kitts A modern curving staircase with a steel railing holds court off to the side.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2025
Outdoor space: In classic Streamline Moderne style, the home’s top-floor patio was designed to evoke the bow of a ship, with metal railings and cover in the form of a roof overhang.
—Angela Serratore, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Whether the ball struck by Shohei Ohtani would have cleared the right-field wall at the Tokyo Dome if some fans hadn’t reached over the railing is immaterial.
—Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
The railings had ashtrays built in every 20 feet, out of an idea that walking and talking and smoking were good for idea formation.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railing
Noun
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This is particularly common in how many in the US discuss stablecoins, with commentary on the subject often comparing it to old correspondent banking rails and nothing else.—
Daniel Webber,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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One of the scarier parts of the last few weeks has been this idea that Trump has become totally unbound, even from the few things that kept him on the rails in the first term, such as public opinion and the stock market.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
Verb
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Last week, Fox premiered the new comedy Going Dutch, about a ranting conservative father (Denis Leary) forced to reconnect with his estranged liberal daughter (Taylor Misiak).—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The Pats addressed two of their biggest needs, but instead in Tuesday’s paper there’s me, smiling in my headshot and ranting in print, a clueless dope.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
12 Mar. 2024
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“Railing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railing. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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