live-boxes

noun

plural of live-box
as in cages

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  1. cages
  2. pounds
  3. runs
  4. pens
  5. corrals
  6. folds
  7. coops
Noun
  • Use bulb cages or buried layers of hardware cloth to repel rodents, and try adding tree guards and fencing to fend off larger animals.
    — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 28 Oct. 2026
  • In 2018, reporters visited the Ursula detention center in South Texas, an old warehouse housing hundreds of children in a series of cages bound by metal fencing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of cages
Noun
  • Cid Paz and his daughter arrived with a wagon to haul away seven sandbags, each weighing about 40 pounds.
    — Da Lin, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Producers must pay private labs to test a sample from each batch of 50 pounds or less.
    — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of pounds
Noun
  • In addition to a 9-yard TD run last week, Kleinhans had five runs for first downs.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Despite a surface that often feels — after two developmental runs, at Virginia’s Signature Theatre and at Paper Mill Playhouse — polished to a commercial, salable gloss, the production began as a distinctly personal story.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of runs
Noun
  • Everyday items like food, clothes and pens all carry labels listing where things are grown, manufactured or even designed.
    — Katie Nixdorf, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2026
  • On a recent, sunny Friday afternoon, Daniel Stromberg sat in the hospital cafeteria at University of Illinois Health, with a set of purple pens and white business cards spread out on the table, as people streamed in and out.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of pens
Noun
  • Now, at the corrals, brushing down the horses and hanging saddles in the tack tent, Tim talked about the deer.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2026
  • After several miles and several hours, the herd is contained, and visitors can gather at the corrals outside the Custer State Park Bison Center to watch crews work.
    — Mary Beaumont, Midwest Living, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of corrals
Noun
  • Years of smiling, laughing, or making any number of facial expressions can lead to deeper folds and wrinkles over time.
    — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Rotate the bowl 90 degrees and fold over another quadrant of the dough, then repeat two more times for a total of 4 folds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of folds
Noun
  • In June, his daughter was visiting and spotted temporary coops going up before a permit had been filed.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Kept in coops throughout the region, the birds are routinely tested for viruses.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of coops
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