walled

Definition of wallednext
past tense of wall

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Verb
  • Where the hill of Fiesole begins to climb, but still in Florence, that’s where the quiet idyll of Il Salviatino begins, a 15th-century villa surrounded by a 13-acre park just 10 minutes away from the Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore) and a 25-minute ride from the airport.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • If your lawn is surrounded by weeds, gophers may be attracted to the area, dining on the roots of the weeds on the way to your lawn.
    David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The town in South Carolina’s Midlands was founded in the mid-18th century and has been carefully preserved through the decades since.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
  • According to a study published in Nature in 2026, the specimens were preserved by mineral-rich water and crude oil, a rare process that retained not only bone but also cartilage, skin and traces of ancient proteins.
    Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Representatives from hostile states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are circumscribed in their movements, typically limited to a small radius around their official posts—an embassy, a consulate, a permanent mission to the UN.
    Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Eventually, the area in the Pentagon where reporters were allowed was circumscribed to a single corridor outside the press room – even though the public affairs officers who worked most closely with reporters were in an office on the other side of the 6½-million-square-foot building.
    Kathy Kiely, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Dozens of them are travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the experiment, enclosed in petri dishes inside a pod that measures 4 by 4 by 12 inches (10 by 10 by 30 centimeters).
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This control was reflected in the layout of the site, in which workshop areas–identified by furnaces and bronze artifacts—were enclosed by earthen walls and moats, suggesting oversight and protection.
    Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • So all these two things have buffered our world against recession.
    CBS News, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Delinquency rates are nearly double the rates from October 2021 but have taken longer to reach pre-COVID levels, buffered by rising home prices.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Miami is a first-year market, and by the time registration closed in December, hundreds of Miami students had enrolled.
    Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The Exide plant was permanently closed in 2015 and later abandoned by the company.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Some myosin classes, such as I and II, are widely conserved across many organisms, whereas others are more specialized and restricted to particular lineages—for example, certain classes are found mainly in animals and others in plants.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • At the end of the day, all the partners in the project share a desire to see the state's natural spaces conserved and made available for recreation by Arkansans and visitors, Andrews said.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The latter was accompanied by the most striking choreography of the night, as a mass of humans encircled and swallowed Reznor at the end of the song, inviting him to join them in their amorphous horde.
    Jeff Miller, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2026
  • How to Get Around Koh Chang is almost entirely encircled by one main road, and the island doesn't have any private tuk-tuks or taxis.
    Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
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“Walled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walled. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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