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Recent Examples of gated
Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
As the project took shape, Arden kept seeing parallels between Siegel’s pampered lifestyle in a gated community in Florida and the rise of a new class of billionaires and tech bros, whose wealth has given them unprecedented power and influence in the Trump era.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Tenants amenities include a community courtyard, secure gated access, garage parking and on-site laundry facilities.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
The news release for the new listing highlights its location within Landfall, a private, gated community.
—Charlie Kingree, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Holding the Celine show on the gated grounds of a national monument didn’t keep the fans away from Michael Rider’s summer show.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
As the project took shape, Arden kept seeing parallels between Siegel’s pampered lifestyle in a gated community in Florida and the rise of a new class of billionaires and tech bros, whose wealth has given them unprecedented power and influence in the Trump era.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Tenants amenities include a community courtyard, secure gated access, garage parking and on-site laundry facilities.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
The news release for the new listing highlights its location within Landfall, a private, gated community.
—Charlie Kingree, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gated
Verb
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The land is now inaccessible to the public, having been fenced off by Croatian authorities.—
Richard Collett,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Ames proposes that the city put in a new bridge just to the side of the old one, which could be preserved and stabilized and even fenced off to keep people from walking on it.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Concertgoers fluttered around the building, staying away from the barricaded stairs leading up to the upstairs balcony, which is inaccessible.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Students returning for the first day of classes this week gathered silently near the barricaded courtyard where Kirk was fatally shot while speaking to students.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Legend has it that before the park was established, a young girl from a local settlement got lost in the woods in the area that later, when dammed, became Lake Fontana.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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But over the years, the river had been dammed upstream, drying it up and killing the fish.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Gated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gated. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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