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Recent Examples of railing
John Meyer, Denver Post, 8 May 2025
At Butler’s start with the Heat, the lasting vision of Riley was of fawning icon, leaning over a distant railing at the Disney pandemic bubble, cheering on his prime 2019 acquisition at the 2020 NBA Finals.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Guenter Parche, 38, reaches over a courtside railing and knifes Seles in the back.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
That same year, a man trying to slide down a railing at Coors Field at a Colorado Rockies game fell and died.
—Homero De La Fuente, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
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Noun
The section of viaduct just upstream from Tunnel 1, the last of the five to be built, is awaiting concrete pouring and pedestrian railings.
—John Meyer, Denver Post, 8 May 2025
At Butler’s start with the Heat, the lasting vision of Riley was of fawning icon, leaning over a distant railing at the Disney pandemic bubble, cheering on his prime 2019 acquisition at the 2020 NBA Finals.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Guenter Parche, 38, reaches over a courtside railing and knifes Seles in the back.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
That same year, a man trying to slide down a railing at Coors Field at a Colorado Rockies game fell and died.
—Homero De La Fuente, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railing
Noun
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There, he’s been working on high-speed rail, notably the long-beleaguered effort to build fast train lines up and down the spine of California.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
23 May 2025
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While Ramaphosa kept his composure and the meeting did not go off the rails like the infamous February meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the South African president was clearly put on his heels by Trump’s tactics.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
21 May 2025
Verb
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Last week, Fox premiered the new comedy Going Dutch, about a ranting conservative father (Denis Leary) forced to reconnect with his estranged liberal daughter (Taylor Misiak).—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The Pats addressed two of their biggest needs, but instead in Tuesday’s paper there’s me, smiling in my headshot and ranting in print, a clueless dope.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
12 Mar. 2024
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“Railing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railing. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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