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State leaders are calling for a mix of punitive and community-based strategies to combat the fatal drug amid a White House push to seal off the Southern border.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Down in Altadena, the National Guard sealed off our neighborhood.
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Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
That directive could seal off the gap used by smugglers now at the Pajarita Wilderness, one of the remaining unfenced portions of Arizona’s border with Mexico.
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Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2025
Museum galleries and library archives were sealed off from smoke by state-of-the-art air handling systems.
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Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
1931, in the meaning defined above
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“Seal off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seal%20off. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
seal off
verb
: to close tightly
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