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That means the end of those stainless-steel stanchions with numbers etched into them at the gate, where passengers today line up based on boarding position assigned at check-in and then pick any open seat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

We’ve got rock formation under the channel near the stanchions to prevent a ship from getting anywhere close to it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

The counter was one of the busiest areas of the supermarket — so busy that employees set up stanchions to guide the queue.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2022

Everything possible was carved with designs, even the stanchions where the goats put their heads and the stalls in the little barn.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen