wall off
phrasal verb
walled off; walling off; walls off
: to separate (something) from the area around it with a wall
The school walled off the playground from the parking lot.
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Iman, walled off by work, is a largely absent authoritarian; Najmeh nervously acts as a conduit, passing along vague information from husband to children.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
To the weekend visitor, our city can seem like a maze of twisting freeways and roads built for cars, walled off to pedestrians.
—L.a. Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Trump can also declare that steps TikTok has taken to distance itself from ByteDance, including a plan known as Project Texas that walls off Americans' data from China, qualifies as divestiture.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
Somewhere in the suburbs, in a house walled off from the world, three adult children are raised in captivity and perpetuity.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 21 June 2024
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
To the weekend visitor, our city can seem like a maze of twisting freeways and roads built for cars, walled off to pedestrians.
—L.a. Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Trump can also declare that steps TikTok has taken to distance itself from ByteDance, including a plan known as Project Texas that walls off Americans' data from China, qualifies as divestiture.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
Somewhere in the suburbs, in a house walled off from the world, three adult children are raised in captivity and perpetuity.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 21 June 2024
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“Wall off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20off. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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