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Recent Examples of pagoda
Originally built as a carriage road during the 1880s, the long and winding road takes you from downtown Hot Springs (just off Central Avenue at the end of Fountain Street) to a lovely picnic area and overlook featuring a historic pagoda that dates back to the early 1900s.
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Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Jan. 2026
Nearby, a stone pagoda bears a tall, striking pillar which has four Buddha faces — one per cardinal direction.
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Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
27 Nov. 2025
But the delicate and sturdy structure with a multitiered roof that makes her box look a pagoda devoted to the baking gods.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.
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Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Jan. 2026
Nearby, a stone pagoda bears a tall, striking pillar which has four Buddha faces — one per cardinal direction.
—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
27 Nov. 2025
But the delicate and sturdy structure with a multitiered roof that makes her box look a pagoda devoted to the baking gods.
—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.
—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pagoda
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According to the Waqf and Glick, more than 70,000 Jewish activists entered the mosque compound last year.
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Independent churches, synagogues, and mosques represent loyalties outside Moscow’s control.
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In 2017, author Prochy Mehta went to court when her intermarried daughter’s children were denied entry to a Kolkata fire temple.
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She and Ben got married a few months later, in a ceremony at a courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, followed by one at a temple in Provo.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last year accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of directing the synagogue fire and an arson attack two months earlier at a Sydney kosher eatery, Lewis’ Continental Kitchen.
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On the inside, work to rebuild the synagogue just began this week.
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The central story was the overwhelming evidence indicating that Russia’s attack on one of Christianity’s greatest shrines during its military assault on Kyiv was a war crime.
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The instruments are on conspicuous display in the respective sitting rooms, each placed atop a shrine of its own, often with an incense stick burning under it.
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“Pagoda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pagoda. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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