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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cordoning (off)
closing in
Verb
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Anthropic’s Claude has taken off in the enterprise while OpenAI’s ChatGPT has hit big with the masses, closing in on a billion users.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
13 Feb. 2026 -
Chris Cotillo of MassLive first tweeted the sides were closing in on a deal.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Cordoning (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordoning%20%28off%29. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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