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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Looking unsure and a bit lost, VIPs from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami straggle into the dim underground garage of a nondescript Little Havana strip mall on a recent Saturday morning.
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
Since her arrival, Moore’s eponymous foundation has helped establish initiatives to reinvigorate Lake City, such as rehabbing a former strip mall into an education and workforce hub named The Continuum.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
L’Amas made a U-turn, turned on his lights and the vehicle pulled over in a strip mall parking lot on the south side of 167th Street, the police report said.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Most of the men who wrote to Shere were not educated men from big cities, but men working on the line at the Ford plant at Dearborn, Michigan or men employed at strip mall legal firms.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
Since her arrival, Moore’s eponymous foundation has helped establish initiatives to reinvigorate Lake City, such as rehabbing a former strip mall into an education and workforce hub named The Continuum.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
L’Amas made a U-turn, turned on his lights and the vehicle pulled over in a strip mall parking lot on the south side of 167th Street, the police report said.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Most of the men who wrote to Shere were not educated men from big cities, but men working on the line at the Ford plant at Dearborn, Michigan or men employed at strip mall legal firms.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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