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Recent Examples of palisade
Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2025
But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 13 Jan. 2025
The other, though crucial, faces steep palisades and deep waters, requiring more time and resources.
—Kathleen Kewley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Recent additions to the grounds include The Ralston Family Collections Center, a Mission Gate and Lunette, and replicas of an 18-pounder cannon and a palisade, all part of the $550 million Alamo Plan.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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Noun
The palisade walls and structural support beams that hold up the fort are made to look like wood but are constructed of concrete.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2025
But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 13 Jan. 2025
The other, though crucial, faces steep palisades and deep waters, requiring more time and resources.
—Kathleen Kewley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Recent additions to the grounds include The Ralston Family Collections Center, a Mission Gate and Lunette, and replicas of an 18-pounder cannon and a palisade, all part of the $550 million Alamo Plan.
—Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for palisade
Noun
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Here's how Congress might fix Social Security Social Security is hurtling toward a fiscal cliff.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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As the footage continues, Muirhead glides over cliffs and homes, laptop in hand, appearing to continue his work mid-flight.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The school district announced the tentative agreement with Local 99 in an alert just five hours before employees were scheduled to picket outside their campuses.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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Members of both unions plan to picket outside Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Rosa Medical Center, Sacramento Medical Center and Fresno Medical Center.—
Catherine Ho,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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As the sun dropped and the temperature fell, Scarabeo Roches Noires emerged on the horizon, a small cluster of white tents perched on a rocky escarpment.—
Fergus Scholes,
TheWeek,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The interiors are timbered wall to wall, from chunky Lincoln Log-style beams to vertical beams cut with their natural edges left intact.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 Feb. 2026
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Goldsworthy had filled a gallery, wall to wall, with a sea of stones, ranging from pebbles to small boulders.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the million-krone view, and the stuff of a thousand Insta posts, is from the Aksla bluff that rises high over the city center, accessible by car or a set of 418 steps.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2026
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In 2012 or 2013, the stake-and-rope barriers were installed between the sidewalk and the bluffs to encourage pedestrians to stay off the cliffs and use beach access stairs, said LJP&B President Ann Dynes.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Significantly, both the ESPN and Roku deals preserve The CW’s right to sell ad time on those platforms.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Heat’s current preference to preserve significant 2027 cap space isn’t being made entirely based on the hope that one of the top potential free agents will opt for free agency in 2027.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2026
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Coastal cliffs and crags are punctuated by black-sand beaches, and rich rain forests hide a towering volcanic cone.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Duffy joined 20 other Orland Grassland volunteers Saturday to plant native shrubs such as American plum, hazelnut and nannyberry viburnum to eventually help buffer some of the noise and pollution from the LaGrange Road traffic.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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But noise, as well as glare, are typically buffered with vegetative landscaping and setbacks, or the distance between the property line and the nearest structure.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Palisade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palisade. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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