plaza

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Recent Examples of plaza Demonstrators crowded into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S. on Saturday to protest President Trump, marching through downtowns and blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. CBS News, 15 June 2025 By just before noon, the crowd already had swelled outside the plaza and into surrounding streets. Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025 Félix Tum Ramírez, one of those convicted, had pointed her out to soldiers earlier in the day in the plaza. Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025 Clarendon Hills officials are considering the addition of a downtown plaza on Prospect Avenue, between Railroad and Park avenues. Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for plaza
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plaza
Noun
  • Crowds filled a square near Budapest's city hall before setting off across the city, some waving rainbow flags, others carrying signs mocking Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
    Anita Komuves, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • Her menu includes cookies, sweet breads, and specialty squares, including brownies, blondies, and almond squares.
    Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The solution: Create two atriums so that more windows can be added to apartments.
    Ellen Rosen, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Patients access the complex — created by merging a former law office, funeral home, car dealership and Dunkin’ Donuts — by driving around back where a porte cochere leads into a soaring atrium.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The average number of retailer forecourts using its platform edged 2% higher year on year, to 14,013.
    Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • So, too, did around 400 United supporters, who gathered throughout the evening on the stadium forecourt to sing anti-Glazer songs.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • The now-familiar Olympic cauldron torch was added above the peristyle at the east end of the stadium.
    Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • The cold room consists of a peristyle or porticoed court that is 10 meters (33 feet) long and 10 meters wide, with a large pool at the center.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There’s an open grill, a garden terrace with just enough candlelight, and a menu best exemplified through its bluefin tuna tartare with raspberry & beetroot sorbet, blood orange, and ponzu sauce.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • The stunning terrace, which wraps around most of the property and offers unobstructed views of the sea below.
    Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Its a 10-floor building with a pool in the courtyard and 559 studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments.
    CD Goette-Luciak, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
  • The Juneteenth walk took participants through Central Park to the Grayslake Heritage Center and Museum for the opportunity to add their handprints to a community art project created in the outside front courtyard.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025

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