Definition of atop
: on, to, or at the top
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Further, aluminum makers must pay a mysterious fee atop all U.S. orders: the Midwest Premium, which is said to cover the cost of transporting, storing and delivering the metal.
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Even the visual aspect of the show was scaled way back, kept to four small banks of stage lights set behind the players and a small silvery platform that all the musicians stood atop.
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The hip-hop artist's second studio effort, ?, could debut atop next week's list with over 115,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 22.
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For a delightful hors d'oeuvre, combine chopped cherry tomatoes with fresh tarragon and slivers of Parmesan cheese; spoon atop thick rectangles of country bread and drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil.
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Victoria’s Secret for underthings, and American Eagle for what goes atop.
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The battle this season however is not just to maintain top-four status, but now the almost apocalyptic scenario of a less than atop-six is a very real prospect.
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It is made with everything from chicken to goat to wild boar to fish, slow-cooked over branches of green pimento wood laid atop hot coals.
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Prognosticators suggest his second full-length studio album, The Thrill of It All, will debut atop next week’s chart with a little more than 200,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 9.
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First Known Use of atop
1638
Definition of atop
: on top of
Examples of atop in a Sentence
The house sits atop a cliff overlooking the ocean.
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The promise of Loopy Doopy, atop the Conrad Hotel, is childhood’s reprisal.
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Daley envisioned the Block 37 shopping center near City Hall sitting atop a station for the high-speed rail.
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Transportation Also known as the spinning thing atop self-driving cars, lidar is the technology that could unlock autonomy for everybody.
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But despite the proximity, there is a barrier: An overpass atop the Jeffries Freeway.
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Doug Pray's film tells the story of the two-story tall, 340-ton granite boulder that was moved from a quarry in Riverside to the museum and mounted atop the walls of a gigantic slot in the earth.
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Vallerius was still wearing his long reddish-brown beard on Tuesday, along with a yarmulke atop his head.
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His death also inspired a new law that requires that boaters towing a skier, or someone riding a tube, must display an orange flag atop the boat's most visible point.
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During Jebens’ long history, the business had a tin-working shop that produced furnaces and church steeples, including the copper one atop Blue Island’s First Lutheran Church.
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First Known Use of atop
1638
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