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Recent Examples of spire
Won the 7 furlong Churchill Downs Stakes on Derby day in his last start and has two wins beneath the twin spires.
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Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
The Air Force Memorial honors the service of all men and women who have served in the U.S. Air Force with three curving stainless steel spires that soar into the sky above Arlington.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 3 May 2025
In Germany, medieval towns like Regensburg and Passau brim with Gothic spires, storybook townhouses, and charming cobbled squares, while the grand Melk Abbey dazzles with its golden frescoes.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Over eons, this deeply buried and buoyant salt layer squeezed upward in other places throughout the region, warping the surface into dramatic landforms like stone arches and spires.
—Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
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Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
The Air Force Memorial honors the service of all men and women who have served in the U.S. Air Force with three curving stainless steel spires that soar into the sky above Arlington.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 3 May 2025
In Germany, medieval towns like Regensburg and Passau brim with Gothic spires, storybook townhouses, and charming cobbled squares, while the grand Melk Abbey dazzles with its golden frescoes.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Over eons, this deeply buried and buoyant salt layer squeezed upward in other places throughout the region, warping the surface into dramatic landforms like stone arches and spires.
—Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
Noun
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Some people may welcome that boundary as a safeguard against harmful spirals.—
Victor Dey,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Written by Randall Rydell Russell (The Hostage), the story follows a struggling screenwriter who finds his latest script mirroring real-life murders, plunging him into a paranoid spiral.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
20 Aug. 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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But in Chile 28 percent of kids had a counterclockwise whorl.—
Bethany Brookshire,
Scientific American,
31 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Designed to revive curls after heat or prolonged protective styles, this formula helps coils spring back into shape.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
21 Aug. 2025
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In the early 1930s, the English automotive engineer George Carwardine came up with a mechanism featuring tightly wound coils of wire that could suspend objects in space.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
19 Aug. 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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Hong Kong rises in a dazzling vertical rhythm—where sleek towers pierce the sky as incense curls from temple courtyards.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Other moments in the carousel showed Sweeney's hair in varying states, from straighter bangs and looser curls, to teased with voluminous waves.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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