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Recent Examples of railing
Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The daughter lost her balance and fell backwards off the railing into the ocean.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Take them outdoors, hang them over a railing, and whack them with a broom handle or similar tool.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Station 113 races to rescue the man impaled by the railing atop the water tower that was built in the late 1800s and was expanded to four stories in the 1890s to accommodate fire-fighting water tanks.
—Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Markwood, 20, went over the railings during the seventh inning of the game at PNC Park on April 30.
—Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
The daughter lost her balance and fell backwards off the railing into the ocean.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Take them outdoors, hang them over a railing, and whack them with a broom handle or similar tool.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Station 113 races to rescue the man impaled by the railing atop the water tower that was built in the late 1800s and was expanded to four stories in the 1890s to accommodate fire-fighting water tanks.
—Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railing
Noun
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The visit comes months after the fatal August stabbing of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on the city’s LYNX Blue Line light rail.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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But as the season progressed, the [shudders] discourse really went off the rails.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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When someone is ranting and raving about you, ignore them.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Railing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railing. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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