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In Beverly Grove, city crews have fenced off several median strips on San Vicente Boulevard, adorning them with planters filled with multicolored succulents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Poland and Lithuania have fenced their borders with Belarus and the new Latvian government has pledged to finish its own fence by the end of the year.
From Reuters ● Sep. 19, 2023
Farmers have fenced off thousands of kilometres of rivers to prevent livestock from wading in.
From Economist ● Nov. 16, 2017
The new residents of Matera don’t always seem imbued with the communal spirit of the old days: some property owners have fenced off vicinati, making the most public part of the Sassi private.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
You will observe, sir, that I have fenced off only that portion of the dump beyond high-water mark.
From Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
