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forecourt

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as in plaza

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Recent Examples of forecourt The 40-foot elevation drop from the General Hospital forecourt to the commercial hub will be ameliorated by raising the low area about 20 feet. — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 The developmental tournaments and lower rungs of the tours, where players build up match toughness, rankings points and the skills that clay teaches — movement, defense, patience, forecourt awareness — are played on it, too. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 May 2026 Visitors approaching the museum’s doors will pass under a canopy of silver birch trees installed in its forecourt. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026 Bright and early the next morning, Mustapha Abdelfatah, a bespectacled translator-chaperone, and a beefy driver-bodyguard named Slimane Labaoui, who, in a bit of cross-cultural typecasting, played a warrior in Gladiator, met me in the forecourt of Dar Ahlam. — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for forecourt

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Another grocery store could be coming to a vacant Independence plaza as the city continues working to attract new businesses to replace several shuttered department stores.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
The future community center could include a library, 500-seat banquet hall, 299-seat black box theater, outdoor event plaza, commercial kitchen, art gallery and meeting space for community groups, according to a city presentation.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of plaza

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Immediately after the news broke, people began gathering in the square in front of the royal palace in Oslo, bringing flowers and rallying in memory of their king.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
Major premieres, midnight screenings, restaurant openings, record store concerts, and more turned those few blocks into a sacred town square.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of square

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The atrium is a true rarity, with a 100-foot wall of windows that line the front of the home and thick walls that retain heat for a comfortable interior temperature year-round.

— Felicia Brower, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2026
Beds and rooms wrap around the atrium in tiers of the three-story building.

— Trevor Morgan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of atrium

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Also of note is the Malt Whiskey Bar, which specializes in the brown stuff and has an adjacent cigar-smoking terrace.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
Another shows someone climbing into a helicopter, stepping from a roof terrace, onto the landing gear and then into the cockpit, after appearing to take off their t-shirt to wave and attract the aircraft’s attention.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

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