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as in door
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened
be sure to latch the gate when you leave so the dog doesn't get out
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as in to fence
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Recent Examples of gate
Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The old gates stand open, letting townsfolk drift in.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
Limiting new graphical tricks to new hardware is hardly unique in the graphics business—Nvidia has gated multiple DLSS features to new GPUs, including Frame Generation for the GeForce RTX 40-series and Multi-Frame Generation for the 50-series.
—Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The stadium itself has been Palace’s home since 1924, and there are still gates around the ground with gaps big enough to steal a look at the pitch, a rarity in the Premier League.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The old gates stand open, letting townsfolk drift in.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
The rain that was predicted to fall on the Oscars never arrived Sunday, but Hollywood Blvd is gated on both sides from Cahuenga Boulevard on the East and Le Brea on the West with crossing cut off as of Wilcox.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
Limiting new graphical tricks to new hardware is hardly unique in the graphics business—Nvidia has gated multiple DLSS features to new GPUs, including Frame Generation for the GeForce RTX 40-series and Multi-Frame Generation for the 50-series.
—Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gate
Noun
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Among the rest of the cast, Omar Miller is excellent as Cornbread, a sharecropper who works the door of the club, and Li Jun Li as Grace, part of the Chinese couple (with Yao as Bo Chow) who run the grocery stores for both the poor and the rich in town.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again should be expecting a knock on his door and a fresh batch of homemade cookies some time real soon.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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This approval is a significant step forward and should open the doorway to a therapy that has clear clinical advantages for the patient with mCRPC who has progressed on one ARPI and has not received chemotherapy.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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But the steps are at an angle to the canvas, giving the composition a sort of twist that makes the view upward toward the waiting feline and the doorway behind feel slightly disorienting.—
Barry Schwabsky,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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These included a faulty valve on the Atlas V rocket's upper stage, and then a helium leak inside Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
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The city fenced off the area and evicted the homeless before the sale to a group of property owners.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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While most of the area will be accessible, some sections will stay fenced off for safety as crews finish stabilizing the ground and to allow new grass to grow.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2025
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The Minecraft actor and Tenacious D rocker, 55, made his grand entrance on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show by walking through the studio audience while shredding on a pixelated guitar.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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But as Miami Heat teammates Davion Mitchell and Haywood Highsmith wait for the buzzer to allow for their entrance, there typically remains one element still to sort out.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Gate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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