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Recent Examples of stanchion
Gate areas will feature digital screens and streamlined lanes, eliminating numbered stanchions (silver columns).
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Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Travelers breezed through largely empty rows of stanchions at the TSA checkpoint, where wait times were listed as less than 10 minutes.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Hamas says at least 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the last week; Israeli officials said troops fired to prevent incursions across the yellow line, which is now being marked with colored stanchions as a clearer warning.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
Some rope and stanchion kept them from knock, knocking on the wood.
—Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
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Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Travelers breezed through largely empty rows of stanchions at the TSA checkpoint, where wait times were listed as less than 10 minutes.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Hamas says at least 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the last week; Israeli officials said troops fired to prevent incursions across the yellow line, which is now being marked with colored stanchions as a clearer warning.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
Some rope and stanchion kept them from knock, knocking on the wood.
—Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stanchion
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In the end, Laffrey, whose Broadway credits include Maybe Happy Ending and Parade, settled for using an iPhone app to record the size of pilasters and mullioned mirrors.—
Carey Purcell,
Architectural Digest,
27 Oct. 2025
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With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Even the threat of reducing security for the Strait of Hormuz risks shaking confidence in a pillar of the world economy, as well as American wealth and power.—
Gerry Doyle,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Steel support pillars driven into the caves have caused rust and iron pollution in the water, and falling stalactites are making some cenotes unsafe to explore.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Apr. 2026
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The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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In a column in the Times, Bret Stephens noted that the good will many Jewish Americans had assumed would be extended to them after October 7th never materialized.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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In 1903, a vicious winter storm reduced most of the piers to splinters, and by 1906 offshore oil production at Summerland had all but ceased.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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SkyCal was overhead as a large group of people waited at the end of the pier while law enforcement personnel swept the pier.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Stanchion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stanchion. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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