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cathedral

noun

Definition of cathedral

as in tower

a large, magnificent, or massive building the company didn't want just a new office building—it demanded a cathedral that proclaimed its place among the giants of finance

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Recent Examples of cathedral In Manizales, also within the country’s coffee growing axis, other footage showed a tower atop the city’s landmark Gothic cathedral toppled from its foundation. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 In nearby Manizales, one of the towers of the neo-Gothic cathedral collapsed and fell on the nave. — ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026 Images showed one of the towers of the city's neo-Gothic cathedral had collapsed and fallen on the nave. — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 In Manizales, a city about 190 miles (300 kilometers) west of Bogota, one of the towers of the neo-Gothic cathedral collapsed and fell on the nave. — Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cathedral

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Reaching it means climbing down the tower steps and padding past other guests’s doors late at night.

— Megan Rose Murray, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
The tower would be built on a two-acre portion of the site that includes the church’s parking lot.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

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The king has hemolytic anemia and was being treated with cortisone, leading to fluid accumulation in the body that required hospital treatment, the palace said last week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Native American artists from the 19 surrounding pueblos sell handmade jewelry and other traditional art beneath the palace’s long portal.

— Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Over time, however, some intrepid people moved into the ruins of these edifices, setting up tents on the concrete floors, using bed sheets as walls, cooking on makeshift stoves.

— Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
To achieve freedom, then, is to escape character, and with it the whole edifice of novelistic contrivance.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

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