walling

present participle of wall

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Verb
  • In quick succession, the Court began circumscribing Congress’s ability to define rights and act on its constitutional imagination.
    Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • This wouldn’t be the first time the Court has avoided a head-on fight with the other branches, especially after Congress makes noise about circumscribing its authority.
    Time, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The show also includes looks that are really about preserving the performer’s face and employing subtle transformations via stubble or smaller prosthetic pieces.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
  • The marker honoring Rush is the first planned for the Arkansas River Delta Blues Trail, which is a project of Arkansas Originals, a nonprofit dedicated to celebrating and preserving people, places and cultural traditions in the Natural State.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • The case has drawn national attention, fueled by debate over Texas self-defense law, questions surrounding race, competing narratives about what happened beneath a Memorial High School team tent and demonstrations outside the Collin County courthouse.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
  • Connecting the two new galleries is a bridge that doubles as space for displaying sculpture, ceramics, and glassware, as well as including a café that provides great views of the surrounding landscape.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
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
  • The latter offering involves enclosing chips in casing and readying them to be connected to other circuitry.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
  • The sidewalls connect the beads to the tread, enclosing the tire’s body.
    Jason Fogelson, AJC.com, 29 May 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
  • Meester plays all of this with a convincing lack of self-awareness and hilarious desire to keep the walls from closing in around her.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • In private markets, Anthropic leapfrogged OpenAI to become the most valuable AI startup in Silicon Valley, closing in on a $1 trillion valuation in its latest funding round as more LLM companies look to go public this year.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 29 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
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“Walling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walling. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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