Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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China is trying to prevent virus infections with a so-called bubble that has walled off Games participants from Chinese society.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
Voiced by a holier-than-thou Simon McBurney with such loathsome relish that you can practically smell the colonization reeking off the screen, Cromwell has walled himself inside a heavily fortified Irish hamlet when the story begins.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2020
For now, though, the guy has walled himself in.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2016
The Pompidou, with restraint and politesse, has walled off the Gehry show from those emerging approaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2014
And he has walled in the spring with rocks, and… Who in the world can it be?
From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Jackson Gregory
