1
: having or controlled by a gate
a gated entrance
2
: designed to restrict entrance usually by means of physical barriers, a private security force, and a controlled gate
gated communities
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Arakawa returned home around 5:15 p.m. and used a remote to open the gate at Santa Fe Summit, the gated community in the foothills just outside of Santa Fe where the couple had lived for decades.
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Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were found dead in their home in a gated community in Santa Fe on Feb. 26, but appear to have died earlier in the month.
—Alex Sundby, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
The couple was found on Feb. 26 in separate rooms of their grand mansion, tucked at the end of a cul-de-sac in the gated community called the Santa Fe Summit.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
The couple’s stucco, Pueblo-revival style home sits on a hill in a gated community at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains.
—Lisa Baumann, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were found dead in their home in a gated community in Santa Fe on Feb. 26, but appear to have died earlier in the month.
—Alex Sundby, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
The couple was found on Feb. 26 in separate rooms of their grand mansion, tucked at the end of a cul-de-sac in the gated community called the Santa Fe Summit.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
The couple’s stucco, Pueblo-revival style home sits on a hill in a gated community at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains.
—Lisa Baumann, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Gated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gated. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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