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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small lamp was mounted on an upright stanchion near the head of each staircase.
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As he reached the end of the willow grove, a tottering cobblestone bridge resting on wooden stanchions appeared on his left.
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One by one the journalists realized that they could slip underneath the yellow stanchions and branch out to interview genuine New Hampshirites.
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Railings, stanchions, boat-davits-everything was swept clean.
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The media strained against the yellow stanchion that kept them corralled toward the back.
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The spotlight was a torch, tied to a stanchion .
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Two boat-hooks around the guard-rail stanchions held them in position.
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Was the movement strong enough to make the boat pull the iron stanchions free of the bank?