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For months, U.S. travelers have been able to fly overseas from SEA, but on Monday , the U.S. will lift the 18-month restrictions that have walled off international travelers from entering the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
To avoid any possible line of sight of the Capitol balcony, where the ceremony takes place, barricades have walled off the Mall and adjoining streets.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021
After a year in which many facilities have walled off to the world, crippling some residents in isolation, and leading to medical declines and deaths in others, some need no convincing.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
Its residents have walled off the arches in various ways for privacy and established an ad hoc dump for their trash, right before commuters’ cars enter the darkness of the underpass.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
How Friar Bacon made a brazen head to speak, by the which he would have walled England about with brass.
From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous
