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Recent Examples of palisade
Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
As Steven Morris writes for the Guardian, the Mount Pleasant complex originally consisted of a timber-and-stone monument; a henge, or circular enclosure surrounded by a ditch; and a palisade, or fence made out of enormous felled trees.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2020
The homes, the stilts and the palisade burned and quickly collapsed into the river.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2019
Some of the palisade troughs researchers discovered were still intact upon excavation, Radio Prague International reports.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
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Noun
Peck passed an area racked and rearranged last fall by the Merbok storm, evidence of the disfigurement still evident in the clusters of mangled fish camps and spiky bundles of driftwood poking through the snow cover like palisades or anti-tank obstacles in no-man’s land.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
As Steven Morris writes for the Guardian, the Mount Pleasant complex originally consisted of a timber-and-stone monument; a henge, or circular enclosure surrounded by a ditch; and a palisade, or fence made out of enormous felled trees.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2020
The homes, the stilts and the palisade burned and quickly collapsed into the river.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2019
Some of the palisade troughs researchers discovered were still intact upon excavation, Radio Prague International reports.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for palisade
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Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: False The cliff faces in the video are not tree stumps.—
Kate S. Petersen,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Shots of the island’s raw, jagged cliffs and almost acid-green vegetation are bound to mesmerize.—
Aislyn Greene,
AFAR Media,
19 Feb. 2025
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Denver District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace on Friday rejected most of the restrictions that King Soopers had sought on striking workers picketing its stores but did set some conditions.—
Aldo Svaldi,
The Denver Post,
14 Feb. 2025
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Glenn Allen Brooks: Convicted of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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Off the water, an easy 1.25-mile hike leads to one of the overlooks at Horseshoe Bend, where the Colorado River takes a drastic turn around a massive sandstone escarpment.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
4 Feb. 2025
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The stately Fairmont Le Château Frontenac is a ubiquitous presence in Quebec City, always peering down on visitors from its highpoint on the Cap Diamant escarpment.—
Vjosa Isai,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Fortunately, Congress had the foresight to understand both the importance of the service and the potential dangers of executive meddling, and so in 1970 walled it off from overt presidential meddling.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2025
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Different run options offer a variety of adventure, but the classic is a 17-mile portion through the Rio Grande Gorge, also dubbed the Taos Box because it is walled by black basalt cliffs.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
19 Feb. 2025
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While these crags are not the most challenging climbs, their proximity to the city is unique, which explains how outfitters like Klättermusen have flourished.—
Denny Lee,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2025
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One of the best places to see puffins is the Isle of Staffa, an uninhabited volcanic crag rising from the gray seas off the Isle of Mull.—
Emily Matchar,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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The company archive preserves sketches, photographs and a collection of shoes with the Ballerina by Ferragamo logo.—
Andrea Onate,
WWD,
25 Feb. 2025
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But Trump could succeed at today’s more limited and more vital undertaking: upholding a balance of power that preserves that order’s essential achievements against Eurasian aggressors determined to tear them down.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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The first censure also cited comments Quirk made in the media about the plan to move the rail off the Del Mar bluffs that contradicted the city’s official position.—
Luke Harold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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But Iran needs to know that the threat of force is not an Israeli bluff.—
DENNIS ROSS,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Feb. 2025
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Starlink will ultimately be available on United’s fleet of 1,000 aircraft, enabling customers to do things like stream movies and television without buffering.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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However, by paying employees in stock and subsequently repurchasing shares via a buyback, a company can buffer operating cash flows by moving the payout to the financing-cash line item.—
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CNBC,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Palisade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palisade. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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