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Recent Examples of spire
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.
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Ominous clouds prompted a diversion to the Trango Towers, a rampart of granite spires esteemed by big-wall climbers.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
The alpine lake sits at around 10,000 feet in elevation, and is ringed by the Cirque of the Towers—a picturesque semi-circle of 12,000-foot granite spires that has long enchanted rock climbers and trekkers alike.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 23 July 2025
His office, which looks out over the colorful spires of MIT’s Stata Center, is another illustration of the creative use of space.
—Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 13 July 2025
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Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Ominous clouds prompted a diversion to the Trango Towers, a rampart of granite spires esteemed by big-wall climbers.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
The alpine lake sits at around 10,000 feet in elevation, and is ringed by the Cirque of the Towers—a picturesque semi-circle of 12,000-foot granite spires that has long enchanted rock climbers and trekkers alike.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 23 July 2025
His office, which looks out over the colorful spires of MIT’s Stata Center, is another illustration of the creative use of space.
—Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
Noun
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That game started a late-season spiral that ended with the firing of defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake, who was replaced by Jeff Ulbrich.—
Josh Kendall,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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Spread chicken mixture on a slice of zucchini and roll into a tight spiral.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
14 Sep. 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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The Inuit victims, many of them teenagers at the time, were either fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices, known as IUDs or coils, or given a hormonal birth control injection.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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Young Hamnet’s shuffling off this mortal coil once laid the groundwork for a masterpiece.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 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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For example, if a model had an afro, Simone used products to accentuate their curls.—
Essence,
Essence,
11 Sep. 2025
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Gray loves Catrice Hyper Lash Mascara, which separates lashes for definition, length, volume, and curl.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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