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The establishment of the Zangezur Corridor would effectively seal off Armenia’s southern frontier with Iran and mean its only open border would be with Georgia.
—Charlie Campbell / Yerevan, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
He’s sealed off from the world intentionally at the beginning of his chronological journey.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
The entrance to the Al Jazeera workspace had been entirely sealed off with iron doors which the security guard told CNN were installed by the Israeli military.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
To explore these nodules, which sit kilometers down, Sweetman’s team lowered an ocean-bottom lander with three experimental chambers that can be partially plunged into the seafloor sediments, sealing off the samples.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 18 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1931, in the meaning defined above
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“Seal off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seal%20off. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
seal off
verb
: to close tightly
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