Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cordoned (off)
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Be aware that many of this park’s trails are closed in the summer due to extreme heat.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026 -
The hotel itself was built on the site of Shinmichi Elementary School, which closed in 2011 after 141 years of educating the Miyagawa-cho’s youth.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Mar. 2026
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Representatives from hostile states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are circumscribed in their movements, typically limited to a small radius around their official posts—an embassy, a consulate, a permanent mission to the UN.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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Eventually, the area in the Pentagon where reporters were allowed was circumscribed to a single corridor outside the press room – even though the public affairs officers who worked most closely with reporters were in an office on the other side of the 6½-million-square-foot building.—
Kathy Kiely,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
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By then, Pahlavi was surrounded by a younger entourage of analysts and advisers, some of whom were brash figures once associated with the country’s reformist student movement.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Coming into March Madness, much of the conversation around TCU women’s basketball surrounded the dynamic duo of Olivia Miles and Marta Suárez.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Cordoned (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordoned%20%28off%29. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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