strip mall
noun
: a long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments
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The film’s greatest feat isn’t its wobbly characterizations, but its setting — the stretches of strip malls and chain businesses that make up most of America but rarely get showcased onscreen so thoughtfully.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
The bushes are often mass planted as hedges or to enhance home sidewalks and walkways, commercial landscaping, golf courses, hotel landscapes and strip malls.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
Leave downtown to find a couple of pearls tucked into dingy strip malls.
—Peter Cameron, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Din Tai Fung opened its first American location in a suburban Los Angeles strip mall a quarter of a century ago, setting off a craze for its signature xiao long bao soup dumplings.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
The bushes are often mass planted as hedges or to enhance home sidewalks and walkways, commercial landscaping, golf courses, hotel landscapes and strip malls.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
Leave downtown to find a couple of pearls tucked into dingy strip malls.
—Peter Cameron, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Din Tai Fung opened its first American location in a suburban Los Angeles strip mall a quarter of a century ago, setting off a craze for its signature xiao long bao soup dumplings.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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