shopping center
noun
: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually with ample parking facilities and usually designed to serve a community or neighborhood
called also shopping plaza
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The Olympian is among a notorious group that includes people like Omar Cardenas, accused of fatally shooting a man at a large outdoor shopping center in California, and Bhadreshkumar Patel, accused of fatally beating his wife in Maryland.
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Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
Doug McMurrain owns La Plaza Colorado, a shopping center and market down the street on Colfax.
—Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
Davis works for Reindeer Games, a Kettle Moraine area farm that takes its herd to Christmas parades, corporate holiday parties, schools and shopping centers across the state.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Agents wearing masks and in unmarked SUVs questioned and arrested people in public spaces like shopping center parking lots, neighborhoods and a church’s lawn.
—Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 4 Dec. 2025
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Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
Doug McMurrain owns La Plaza Colorado, a shopping center and market down the street on Colfax.
—Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2025
Davis works for Reindeer Games, a Kettle Moraine area farm that takes its herd to Christmas parades, corporate holiday parties, schools and shopping centers across the state.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Agents wearing masks and in unmarked SUVs questioned and arrested people in public spaces like shopping center parking lots, neighborhoods and a church’s lawn.
—Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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