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plaza

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as in square

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Recent Examples of plaza The park features a food truck plaza, where visitors milling about on Friday could grab treats. — Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2026 Video footage of the store’s opening showed customers waiting in a line snaking through the shopping plaza to enter the store, with shoppers trying samples and purchasing tote bags and snacks. — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 There’s also two basketball courts, a tennis court, a multiuse field, an outdoor shelter, a plaza with seating, trails and parking. — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2026 Martin trying to coordinate the DOT’s future construction along Main with local initiatives, including the development of Bissell Street as a pedestrian plaza. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plaza

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Noun

Elsewhere in Europe, a huge encampment of tents has occupied a square in Madrid since late last month, and thousands of people in Portugal have taken to the streets in the city of Lisbon.

— Richard Engel, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2026
In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblong-square tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint of chocolate, with brown bread, and an iron spoon.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of square

Noun

Nearly half the museum is free to visit, including a central atrium and a coffee shop on the fourth floor with a panoramic terrace.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
On Friday night, in the airy lobby with its white marble walls and glass atrium, the international cohort got acquainted over Prosecco.

— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of atrium

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Related The Band of The Coldstream Guards marched into the palace forecourt in its signature red coats and black bearskins and assembled into lines as a crowd of people looked on from the other side of the gates.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026
Marilyn’s official handprints, footprints, and signature are embedded in the cement of the Chinese Theater’s front forecourt at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of forecourt

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Floor-to-ceiling glass doors in main living spaces pivot open to expansive terraces that look toward the mountaintops and the Pacific Ocean.

— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2026
Additional features include the spiral staircase leading up to the rooftop terrace, offering sweeping Notting Hill views.

— Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of terrace

Noun

About 120 of its 348 rooms are ready to rent, starting at roughly $200 a night; the hotel also has a restaurant, lounge and courtyard pool.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The house wraps around a central courtyard and swimming pool, with French doors opening onto the gardens.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026

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