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Recent Examples of spire
Gold is also used around the spires to catch the sunlight.
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Colson Thayer, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Winding cobblestoned streets, arched stone bridges, skyline-dotting spires… the city of Prague is built to charm.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2025
Devils Garden Arches, fins, and spires decorate the park’s beloved Devils Garden, which is around 45 minutes north of the park visitor center.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 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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Colson Thayer, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Winding cobblestoned streets, arched stone bridges, skyline-dotting spires… the city of Prague is built to charm.
—Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2025
Devils Garden Arches, fins, and spires decorate the park’s beloved Devils Garden, which is around 45 minutes north of the park visitor center.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 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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But when a tragedy befalls the hotel, Nina is propelled in a relentless spiral of lies and manipulations.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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That means health crises for the newly uninsured could lead them, too, into a spiral of medical debt.—
Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 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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Natural styling using the LOC method is the best practice to protect and nurture your coils.—
Talia Gutierrez,
Glamour,
30 Sep. 2025
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Venturing into the water to do battle, Krishna grows in size to escape the snake’s constricting coils.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 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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Thanks to multiple attachments, the tool dries, curls, smooths and straightens hair without causing too much heat damage.—
Caitlyn Martyn
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FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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The singer’s textured pixie, which was cut shorter in the back, had face-framing sideburns and curls that narrowly avoided being called bangs, is hard to miss, and now, just in time for fall, has been reintroduced on the front row.—
Essence,
Essence,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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