sunk fence

noun

Definition of sunk fencenext
as in ditch

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  1. ditch
  2. trench
  3. moat
Noun
  • Those risks can include operating heavy mowing equipment and having to navigate roadside ditches.
    — Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Access holders say the fence has created significant problems, including trapping wildlife and diverting water from community irrigation ditches.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of ditch
Noun
  • The clothes performed a parallel operation on familiar forms, pulling apart bikers, trenches, tweed jackets, corsetry, and punk hardware before rebuilding them into funky new forms of feminine armor.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Direct water toward the bed by installing a gutter extension, creating a downhill slope, digging a trench or connecting a PVC pipe to a distant gutter and running it underground to the rain garden.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of trench
Noun
  • Bloomberg’s moat is not its AI capabilities but the ability to feed high-quality financial intelligence into AI systems continuously.
    — Harsh Verma, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Most companies were incentivized to create defensive moats around their products once they were sold to prevent competition from replacing them.
    — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of moat
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“Sunk fence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunk%20fence. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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