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  • verb Present participle of corral.

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Examples

  • The same doubts would recur among investors and public officials decades later when the idea of corralling the Colorado behind a towering dam was first broached, and they would take a decade more to overcome.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The same doubts would recur among investors and public officials decades later when the idea of corralling the Colorado behind a towering dam was first broached, and they would take a decade more to overcome.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Indeed, just as the administration has successfully converted many of D. C.'s Professional Liberal organizations into administration sycophants (what Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher calls corralling them into the "veal pen"), so too may it try to use the carrot of access to coerce liberal-labeled media to serve as the administration's house organ of political defense.

    David Sirota: Access and Stenographic Journalism in the Obama Era 2010

  • In the prequel, the corralling was a little more subtle and the on-rails feeling wasn't as in-your-face.

    Tom's hardware UK 2010

  • In the prequel, the corralling was a little more subtle and the on-rails feeling wasn't as in-your-face.

    Tom's hardware UK 2010

  • In the prequel, the corralling was a little more subtle and the on-rails feeling wasn't as in-your-face.

    Tom's hardware UK 2010

  • In the prequel, the corralling was a little more subtle and the on-rails feeling wasn't as in-your-face.

    Tom's hardware UK 2010

  • With all the troubles that came up to try to put the kibosh on that idea, such as corralling the money from someone who owed it to me, to going all over the Dallas Metro area to scrounge up the required parts, it's amazing I got anything accomplished other than that.

    It's Autumn, Michael Chertoff, and your gut was wrong! 2007

  • All around me was a leaden glare, the snow clouds "corralling" me in.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • On all the American rivers, east and west, a lusty crew, collected from the waning Indian trade and the disbanded pioneer armies, found work to its taste in poling the long keel boats, "corralling" the bulky barges -- that is, towing them by pulling on a line attached to the shore -- or steering the "broadhorns" or flatboats that transported the first heavy inland river cargoes.

    The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Archer Butler Hulbert 1903

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