socle

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Noun
  • On Wednesday, behind the office building where there are wall friezes created by McGraw-Hill, shy deer and a jackrabbit darted away.
    Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 31 July 2025
  • These included reproductions of paintings by Degas, Dürer, Raphael, and Manet, and also images of Javanese dancers and the friezes at the temple of Borobudur.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Like one icicle falling from an alpine crag onto an unstable snow cornice below, a small slide rapidly turns into a thundering avalanche.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In the lower right corner of the frame, there’s a cornice.
    Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To prove their point, the researchers analyzed 46 years’ worth of venture-capital startup investments, among other data points.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The project, called the MARS-V Project, is under development by MARS-V, a non-governmental organization based in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar.
    Rosanna Philpott, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Early plans, according to Smithsonian magazine, included an entablature with a short history of the country, a staircase, a Hall of Records to include the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the torsos of each president featured.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues.
    Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Upping the sheen for the trims (skirting boards and window and door architraves) adds a subtle variation and frames the room.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2025
  • The researchers also studied a group of architrave blocks, which would have been positioned just above the columns of a building.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The structure itself is composed of two intersecting, circular forms, each 36 m (118 ft) wide, and elevated on slender steel columns.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
  • New England improved to 5-2 on the year and are one up in the win column over the Buffalo Bills for the lead in the AFC East.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • OpenAI unveiled a web browser on Tuesday in a bid to make its ChatGPT AI product the starting point for online access and establish itself as central pillar of the internet economy.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Removing the roof required a fair amount of engineering to ensure torsional rigidity, including strengthening the door sills, A-pillars, and adding cross-body braces.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But entering via the Park Avenue lobby, with its walls and pilasters of Rockwood stone, still feels like a moment.
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2025
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“Socle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socle. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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