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verb

past tense of gate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gated
Adjective
How many houses does Travis Kelce own? Kelce's main home is a $6 million mansion in a gated community near Kansas City, according to Hello Magazine. Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Last November, Taylor Morrison paid $60 million for the McKinnon Groves property in the Wellness Way area after commissioners approved plans for a 658-home gated community. James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025 In 2020 Brown was accused of destroying a security camera and throwing his bicycle at a security shack in his gated community in Hollywood, Florida. Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025 Without hesitation, the new mom springs into action, trotting through the house and into a gated room. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gated
barricaded
Adjective
  • Local schools and Scouting groups participated and the parade ended with many of the people who attended the parade following the procession in the barricaded streets to the park.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
  • Shooting outside of Speaker’s Lobby Babbitt was part of a group of Trump backers that smashed through windows of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby, where Capitol Police officers held off protesters in an effort to buy more time for members of Congress to evacuate to safety.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 20 May 2025

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“Gated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gated. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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