cornices

Definition of cornicesnext
plural of cornice
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Noun
  • In the end, Laffrey, whose Broadway credits include Maybe Happy Ending and Parade, settled for using an iPhone app to record the size of pilasters and mullioned mirrors.
    Carey Purcell, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2025
  • With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.
    Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Russia built this advantage on scale, geography, and a decade of deliberate investment in markets Western capitals largely ignored.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • These are the ocular dominance columns, described in the Nobel Prize-winning research of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the 1960s, whose recordings from cats’ (Felis catus) and macaques’ (genus Macaca) revealed that the visual cortex is not a neutral integrator of the two eyes’ signals.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The supply chain runs mine to crusher to leaching tanks to solvent extraction columns to metal reduction furnaces to sintering presses — each a separate facility, a separate specialized workforce, a separate capital cycle.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • Two additional organizations have built enduring pillars of support for the community to last beyond the sacrifice.
    D’Juan Wilcher, Boston Herald, 25 May 2026
  • When successive governments weakened those pillars, the numbers crept back up.
    Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • Unlike other methods for sinking deep shafts, Gangtie Jiliang is built specifically to tackle hard rock.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Upgrades will require significant reinforcement of some walls and elevator shafts, though engineers have found ways to do the work by pouring new concrete footings and installing additional steel bracing without significantly impinging on internal spaces or being visible on exterior surfaces.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The flats do cushion your steps and even support your arches.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2026
  • The most notable flip-flop deals happening right now are on this pair of Skechers that one shopper with plantar fasciitis applauded for their comfort and cushion, as well as dressy Vionic flip-flops that have a delicate bow detail and a footbed designed to hug your arches.
    Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
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“Cornices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornices. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.

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