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as in fence
a physical object that blocks the way
an ancient wall that was built to block the invading barbarians
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as in defense
means or method of defending
investigators faced a wall of silence from the members of the police department
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as in to picket
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Recent Examples of wall
Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
Other properties focus on the windows and walls themselves.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 22 Aug. 2025
Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
But last week, its white walls were covered in soot and graffiti.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Meanwhile, OpenAI and its rivals have also become more aggressive in their efforts to keep individual users walled into their chatbots, where the companies can accrue valuable data and charge subscription fees.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
Other properties focus on the windows and walls themselves.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
Plus, the kit comes with a spacious porch, complete with two wood slat walls for privacy.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
But last week, its white walls were covered in soot and graffiti.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wall
Noun
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Slater’s first blast of the evening was a true wall-scraper in the top of the third, barely clearing the center-field fence to give the Giants an early 1-0 lead.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Protests outside the Broadview facility continued midday Friday, with a handful of demonstrators holding up signs and cellphones toward a fence topped with barbed wire, video from the scene shows.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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The plaintiffs argued that defense attorneys cannot legally present new facts when there has already been another trial that established a set of facts.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Broncos offense rarely runs the stuff right now that the Broncos defense can’t defend.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Union officials said workers would picket both work sites around the clock.—
Alexander Coolidge,
The Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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The union has vowed to strike and picket the two local facilities until better terms are on the table.—
Alexander Coolidge,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Mitigating these risks requires careful planning and compliance, which creates barriers for many.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The order also directs CDPHE to collaborate with other state agencies and offices to identify and remove barriers to vaccination, ensure state health insurance plans and Medicaid cover COVID-19 vaccines and review and revise rules to ensure pharmacies can provide COVID-19 vaccines.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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At least nineteen people were killed, most of them in Kathmandu, the capital, when demonstrators clashed with security forces, who responded by firing live rounds of ammunition.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Krause recalled a time when an elderly shopper struggling to hold a gun asked to buy a revolver and just one round of ammunition, as opposed to the whole box – details that led staff to suspect the man may be suicidal and refuse to sell him the gun.—
Taylor Galgano,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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There are legitimate reasons for concern surrounding the team.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Sep. 2025
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Olivia Rodrigo is making her stance clear on the controversy surrounding Jimmy Kimmel’s recent suspension.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The match ended in a double count-out after both women went through the ringside barricade.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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White tents and barricades all over.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Unlike the closed-coupe Chiron, which cocoons you from its inner workings, the Mistral delivers a raw mechanical sound bath, tempered only by a pop-in wind deflector (fixed in examples for North America)—just aft of the seats—that reduces cabin turbulence and shields air-flow.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2025
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Yet there is still a whiff of old-fashioned British grandeur about the production, with its fluttering pennants, Norman kite shields, and mounted knights.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wall. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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