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verb

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Recent Examples of fence
Noun
One of them is separated from Utah Valley University's Campus Drive by a chain fence, across from an alleyway the shooter may have used while fleeing. Peter D'abrosca , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Federal authorities say the man lurking behind the cyclone fence was Routh. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
The only entrance from the highway is heavily fenced. A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025 During the Democratic National Convention last year, the courthouse was subjected to numerous layers of security, including not only fencing but a tight screening process inside requiring those with business in the building to leave their IDs with officers in the lobby. Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fence
Noun
  • Robinson then allegedly climbed over a short wall and onto the roof, according to the document.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Not long ago, Barbara Starr, who gardens in the San Fernando Valley, sent me a picture of dozens of seedlings that were growing adjacent to her back wall.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With his back against the wall, Tony must draw on his tactical training to protect his family and survive a deadly showdown with a powerful crime syndicate.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Some Cosmists saw technology as destructive and transformative, while others believed its role should be to protect and preserve.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Do not drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In Montpellier, in the southwest, police scuffled with protesters who had set up a barricade to block traffic at a roundabout.
    Stephane Mahe, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Tesla spent years defending, ultimately successfully, its 2016 acquisition of Solar City, Musk’s struggling clean-energy company.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Acosta defended the deal with Epstein in a news conference four days after the multi-millionaire's arrest.
    James Hill, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Affordable Care Act in 2010 expanded access to the reviews, but barriers regularly get in the way of the process serving as a true check on insurers.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Modi was responding to a post by Trump on Truth Social, which said that New Delhi and Washington were continuing negotiations to address the trade barriers between both nations.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The result is an erosion of individual agency and a system that guards access rather than broadens it.
    Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This conversation should always be open, hones, and not guarded or ashamed.
    Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This consistency, Nassau argues, shields founders from the reputational hit of a prior lead refusing to participate in follow-ons.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This safeguards regulatory adherence while ensuring fair market competition between domestic and imported products.
    Nish Acharya, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement Yet, the decades-long effort to secure passage of the VRA offers pragmatic wisdom for safeguarding—and even extending—the gains enshrined by the law.
    Time, Time, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Fence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fence. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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