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Recent Examples of skyscraper
Topped with a fluffy meringue that’s as high as a skyscraper, the filling’s sharp tartness is a nice counterbalance to the rich, carb-heavy foods typically found on the holiday table.
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Nila Do Simon, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
The law is also being invoked by another developer seeking to build a 239-foot-tall skyscraper with 22 stories and a rooftop deck in Pacific Beach.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Like the towering, glittery skyscrapers that could be seen Monday night from the 65th floor of the Rainbow Room in Midtown Manhattan, the fashion life can look impressive from the outside.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Kinahan once gave a visitor from the boxing world a tour of his offices, which occupied a whole floor of a tower next to the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Nila Do Simon, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
The law is also being invoked by another developer seeking to build a 239-foot-tall skyscraper with 22 stories and a rooftop deck in Pacific Beach.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Like the towering, glittery skyscrapers that could be seen Monday night from the 65th floor of the Rainbow Room in Midtown Manhattan, the fashion life can look impressive from the outside.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Kinahan once gave a visitor from the boxing world a tour of his offices, which occupied a whole floor of a tower next to the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyscraper
Noun
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Cell tower data placed his phone inside Israel near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the sites where Hamas and its supporters carried out a brutal massacre.—
Greg Norman , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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This mass is lifted and lowered frequently within a vertical elevator core or a container tower.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Economists warn the incoming administration faces immediate challenges, including securing fuel supplies and building coalitions in a fragmented legislature.—
Reuters 3 min ago,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
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While the middle school and Montessori sides don’t have a lot of crossover, Diemer and Herrera-Gundale have seen interactions between students and staff across the two sides of the building, such as staff sharing lunch or students walking their younger siblings to class.—
Imani Cruzen,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There were five more minutes left to play — in Emery’s view, sufficient time to attack with greater structure, moving slowly with numbers upfield.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Despite the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn in December 1938 and significant achievements of other German physicists and chemists in research on the structure of the atom, the Nazis were not rushing to put that research to use.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Skyscraper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyscraper. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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