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Verb
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Barcelona closed in on a second consecutive La Liga title after Fermín López and Marcus Rashford scored to help earn its first win at Getafe in six seasons on Saturday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026 -
Public schools are closed in Massachusetts on Patriots' Day, as are all state, county and municipal offices and courts.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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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
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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
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They’ll be surrounded by a fascinating array of co-nominees.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
2 May 2026
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His night ended with him appropriately surrounded in the locker room by teammates who were bleating like goats.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2026
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“Cordoned (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordoned%20%28off%29. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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