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Recent Examples of spire
Nope, that title still goes to the One World Trade Center, which with its nearly 408-foot spire tops out at 1,776 feet.
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Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
Massive plumes of thick, black smoke filled the sky and swallowed up the tall, white spire.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Six workers were gathered around the spire.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Taipei blends incense with cutting-edge innovation—crowned by the soaring spire of Taipei 101 and grounded in night markets where stinky tofu and bubble tea perfume the air.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
Massive plumes of thick, black smoke filled the sky and swallowed up the tall, white spire.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Six workers were gathered around the spire.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Taipei blends incense with cutting-edge innovation—crowned by the soaring spire of Taipei 101 and grounded in night markets where stinky tofu and bubble tea perfume the air.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
Noun
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This will continue for the rest of the month, although the backward spiral will not entirely take place in just Sagittarius.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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The Lincolnshire club had been locked in a spiral of decline in recent times — going from the second-tier Championship to National League North in the space of 12 years, amid financial chaos — but are now upwardly mobile once more, having won promotion back to the National League last season.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Its eponymous flowers are deep red-orange and the foliage is composed of whorls of needle-like, silvery-blue leaves.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
7 June 2025
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In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
Noun
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So far, the system has powered a truck, van, car and bus — all equipped with special pickup coils.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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That aside, many hybrid mattresses are already well-ventilated due to the coils at their base that improve airflow.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Apr. 2022
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In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.—
Leo Rubinfien,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2021
Noun
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Add English peas, flat-leaf parsley, and curls of lemon zest for extra character.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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MacLachlan has the visage of a much younger man, and Davis’s signature shiny brown curls are serving.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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