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Recent Examples of palisade
Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2025
But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 13 Jan. 2025
The other, though crucial, faces steep palisades and deep waters, requiring more time and resources.
—Kathleen Kewley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Recent additions to the grounds include The Ralston Family Collections Center, a Mission Gate and Lunette, and replicas of an 18-pounder cannon and a palisade, all part of the $550 million Alamo Plan.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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Noun
The palisade walls and structural support beams that hold up the fort are made to look like wood but are constructed of concrete.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2025
But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 13 Jan. 2025
The other, though crucial, faces steep palisades and deep waters, requiring more time and resources.
—Kathleen Kewley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Recent additions to the grounds include The Ralston Family Collections Center, a Mission Gate and Lunette, and replicas of an 18-pounder cannon and a palisade, all part of the $550 million Alamo Plan.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for palisade
Noun
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Concert films typically drop off a cliff after Week 1, as the bulk of the box office is tied up in pre-sales and attendance from the biggest fans in the first weekend.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
11 May 2026
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My anchor was made of cliff faces and wild things; its beauty was terrifying.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
Verb
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The school district announced the tentative agreement with Local 99 in an alert just five hours before employees were scheduled to picket outside their campuses.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Members of both unions plan to picket outside Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Rosa Medical Center, Sacramento Medical Center and Fresno Medical Center.—
Catherine Ho,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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As the sun dropped and the temperature fell, Scarabeo Roches Noires emerged on the horizon, a small cluster of white tents perched on a rocky escarpment.—
Fergus Scholes,
TheWeek,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The interiors are timbered wall to wall, from chunky Lincoln Log-style beams to vertical beams cut with their natural edges left intact.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 Feb. 2026
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Goldsworthy had filled a gallery, wall to wall, with a sea of stones, ranging from pebbles to small boulders.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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On the morning before his final Governor’s Fishing Opener in the title role, Tim Walz stood on the Stillwater waterfront, posing for myriad pictures and doing interviews with the community’s iconic Lift Bridge and the bluffs of Wisconsin behind him.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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However, the city determined recently that a costly and time-consuming coastal development permit would be required to complete the work because the stairs are within 50 feet of a coastal bluff.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
Verb
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To help preserve the surrounding landscape, the hotel has also rented out a part of the surrounding ranch for the purpose of relocating livestock and restoring wildlife.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 May 2026
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Gary Stern, who served as general counsel of the National Archives for twenty-six years, collaborated with five Administrations—from Bill Clinton’s to Joe Biden’s—on preserving and releasing Presidential records.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2026
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Coastal cliffs and crags are punctuated by black-sand beaches, and rich rain forests hide a towering volcanic cone.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Consumers’ coffers have been buffered by larger tax refunds, wage gains (although slowing), and wealth boosts (particularly for upper-income consumers).—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
8 May 2026
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Leaders broadly agreed that the shale revolution has buffered American consumers from the worst of the current energy shock in ways Europe, Asia, and Africa cannot match.—
Rachel Keidan,
semafor.com,
7 May 2026
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“Palisade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palisade. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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