At night, a thick wall of noise seemed to edge closer and louder in proportion with my sleeplessness.

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Woods hooked his tee shot deep into the trees, where he was surrounded by a thick wall of fans.

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He is only allowed to see his family once a year and visitors are separated by a thick wall of glass.

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British-born Anthony McCall's piece You and I Horizontal is a bewildering solid light installation that uses a video projector to create what seems like a thick wall.

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You have to build a thick wall.

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Today, sources tell me the reforms have met a large high and thick wall in the corridors of the Treasury.

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The Flatiron Building, for instance, materializes as a thick inverted pencil that stretches down the wall, its point extending onto the floor.

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Did you know, that if you're going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you're accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you'd jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?

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Which is more likely to spur innovation: being hounded by Wall Street to produce new drugs or being buried in the thick bureaucracies of a giant drug company?

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