palisading

present participle of palisade

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for palisading
Verb
  • Day 8 of picketing More than 100 NYSNA nurses were back out in the brutal cold to picket for an eighth day since the strike started last week.
    Christina Fan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that period.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • The investors are looking at what could emerge on a small section of the IBM Almaden Research Center site while preserving as open space several hundred adjoining acres on the property, which is at 650 Harry Road in south San Jose, city files show.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • Decades of research indicate that psychological flexibility plays an important role in buffering the negative effects of stress and a broad range of mental health disorders like depression and anxiety.
    Joan M. Cook, Time, 12 May 2026
  • The method used in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) bases lottery rankings on the past two seasons combined, buffering the payoff for any tanking.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • As with minimizing soil disturbance, this, too, helps tremendously with controlling erosion, increasing the carbon content of soil and conserving moisture.
    Special to The Denver Post, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
  • The impact of the heat was most obvious with regards to Kim Hellberg’s Middlesbrough, whose usual fluent style was swapped for a more energy-conserving approach of injecting bursts of intensity.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 23 May 2026
Verb
  • Both on the same team would force some difficult decisions for opposing offenses, especially with Turner, Byron Young and Braden Fiske rounding out the pass rush.
    Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 9 June 2026
  • Speaker Mike Johnson applauded the passage in a statement Tuesday afternoon, blasting Democrats for opposing the bill.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium on July 8, 1896, at the Democratic National Convention inside Chicago Coliseum at 63rd Street and Stony Island Avenue, and demonstrated that reformers could profit from working within the system instead of fighting it.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • The big and heavy fights in the new trailer for gen ATLAS (shown below) really remind me of fighting various large enemies in Gigantic Drive.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
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“Palisading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palisading. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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