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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To the extent that the best of the AI best in the U.S. had the world walled off to them, they were being set up to slowly fall behind.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The foursome almost held the D-backs hitless, too, until Grichuk hit a two-out double off the right-field wall off Halvorsen in the ninth.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
Altman has said OpenAI will release a similarly open model later this year; apparently the start-up wants to both wall off its garden and make its AI models the foundation for everyone else, too.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2025
Committee chairman Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said even if DHS wanted to wall off another 1,000 miles – unlikely due to extremely rugged and mountainous terrain in some parts – the agency would need $12 billion, not $45.6 billion.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 24 May 2025
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The foursome almost held the D-backs hitless, too, until Grichuk hit a two-out double off the right-field wall off Halvorsen in the ninth.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
Altman has said OpenAI will release a similarly open model later this year; apparently the start-up wants to both wall off its garden and make its AI models the foundation for everyone else, too.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2025
Committee chairman Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said even if DHS wanted to wall off another 1,000 miles – unlikely due to extremely rugged and mountainous terrain in some parts – the agency would need $12 billion, not $45.6 billion.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 24 May 2025
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“Wall off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20off. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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