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as in cage
an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals the horses live in our corral, along with a cow

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Recent Examples of corral
Noun
Take the Dana Point Trolley to stop S3, ride your e-bike and park in the corrals provided by Doheny Bike, or ride your skateboard. Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025 Use rings, grow-through grids, or tomato cages, or homemade corrals made of bamboo and string. Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2025
Verb
Wease flashed his ability in the Dolphins' preseason game against the Detroit Lions, corralling six catches on nine targets for 80 yards and two touchdowns, and teams almost certainly noticed. Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 The map accompanying Gallagher’s resolution corrals the state’s population centers, like the Bay Area, San Diego, Los Angeles and Sacramento into one state. Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for corral
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Noun
  • Determined to finish the swim without help from a shark cage, Diana embarks on a four-year journey alongside her best friend and coach (Jodie Foster) and a supportive sailing crew.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Cannonier's game plan was a good one, but his approach of using leg kicks to slow his opponent and pick up control time against the cage didn't work.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Airbnb co-founder @jgebbia is working with @DOGE to digitize the government's antiquated retirement process — which is literally housed in 22,000 filing cabinets in a Pennsylvania cave.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
  • More than 1,000 employees circumnavigate the bustling fifth floor Tempus office around an atrium that Lefkofsky said was a spiral parking ramp before the building — a National Historic Landmark that once housed the country’s oldest mail-order firm — was converted to tech space 25 years ago.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Video surveillance from the scene posted online by Fox 11 shows a man lingering near a doorway, quickly grabbing the gift box from a table and running out of the venue.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The owner wanted to keep the grab-and-go options previously offered in the space.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Economists and others familiar with how the jobs numbers are collected have expressed confidence that Labor Department procedures will keep the data are safe from political interference.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Like other Wisconsin Lottery games, the winner has 180 days from the draw date to collect their winnings.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • CoreWeave’s chicken coop days gave it a good foundation for that skillset.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Your local university coop extension service can help (find yours here).
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • China’s effort to prompt a strong reaction to climate change and a transition to greater reliance on alternative forms of energy isn’t confined to academic research.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Bruni Tedeschi captures her in that vortex — her pulmonary illness confining her to bed one minute and her artistic drives reanimating her with defiant spirit the next.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now, the Bears are close to catching back up, as the score is 27-24 at the time of this writing.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In February, more than 40 people were killed in southern Mexico when a bus traveling to Tabasco from the tourist city of Cancun hit a trailer truck and caught fire.
    Lizbeth Diaz, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Netanyahu said Israeli forces were organising and assembling into Gaza City.
    USA Today, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Tuesday’s report states that HHS will assemble a working group of federal officials to evaluate SSRI prescribing patterns, specifically among children.
    Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Corral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corral. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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