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Recent Examples of skyscrapers
Its 392-foot tower, said to be the tallest church edifice in the United States, offers spectacular views from its perch on a hill at 122nd Street, overlooking the Hudson River to the west, skyscrapers to the south, and the sprawling expanse of Harlem and the South Bronx to the north and east.
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Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The platform reportedly applies principles borrowed from structural engineering in bridges and skyscrapers and uses a triangular honeycomb structure for superior stability and load distribution.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
From skyscrapers to ballrooms, Trump thinks big.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Its urban centers are like forests of skyscrapers, impeccably connected by sprawling metro systems.
—Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 7 Oct. 2025
From Athens' historic ruins to the shimmering skyscrapers of New York City, global inspiration has been turned into towering confections worthy of a wedding.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Crystalline skyscrapers and cowboy hats abound in the city known for cattle drives, cheerleaders, and oil family soap operas.
—Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
After eons of construction, the bandages came off Willoughby Square last year to reveal Abolitionist Place, a one-acre enclave of greenery, water, leisure, and play designed by the landscape-architecture firm Hargreaves Jones and encircled by skyscrapers.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
By contrast, the bright SVGA colors, angular hills, flowing waterfalls, and isometric skyscrapers of SimCity 2000 felt, at the time, like the future implied by its title.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The platform reportedly applies principles borrowed from structural engineering in bridges and skyscrapers and uses a triangular honeycomb structure for superior stability and load distribution.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
From skyscrapers to ballrooms, Trump thinks big.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Its urban centers are like forests of skyscrapers, impeccably connected by sprawling metro systems.
—Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 7 Oct. 2025
From Athens' historic ruins to the shimmering skyscrapers of New York City, global inspiration has been turned into towering confections worthy of a wedding.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Crystalline skyscrapers and cowboy hats abound in the city known for cattle drives, cheerleaders, and oil family soap operas.
—Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
After eons of construction, the bandages came off Willoughby Square last year to reveal Abolitionist Place, a one-acre enclave of greenery, water, leisure, and play designed by the landscape-architecture firm Hargreaves Jones and encircled by skyscrapers.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
By contrast, the bright SVGA colors, angular hills, flowing waterfalls, and isometric skyscrapers of SimCity 2000 felt, at the time, like the future implied by its title.
—Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyscrapers
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To ensure compliance, their technology digs deeper than basic IP address recognition to monitor the exact place someone tries to place a wager, sifting through real-time data from sources such as GPS coordinates, cell phone towers, WiFi access points and Bluetooth beacons.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Byun’s visual playfulness is likewise compelling enough to compensate for the shortcuts in his storytelling — active camerawork and inventive CGI combine with Jo Hyoung-rae’s heightened cinematography to imbue the film’s airplane cabins and flight control towers with a vivid sense of theatricality.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
15 Oct. 2025
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Bonds ask for a specific dollar amount and can be used for capital expenditures such as new schools and facility buildings, technology infrastructure, safety improvements, school buses and equipment.—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The agreement up for consideration sought to construct 12 three-story apartment buildings along with two community buildings at Hope Way and Penryn Road.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Previous research, carried out under the EndoPrint3D project, successfully proved the feasibility of using ultrashort femtosecond laser pulses to 3D-print structures through optical fibers.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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The word was used in English as early as 1865, in the context of building, architecture, and engineering, referring to the disassembly or dismantling of structures.—
Brené Brown,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Skyscrapers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyscrapers. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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