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Recent Examples of spire
Bryce Canyon is a colorful maze of spires, cliffs and ravines eroded in soft rock and soil at the edge of a plateau.
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CBS News, 2 May 2025
Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park is known for its otherworldly landscape of vibrant red rock hoodoos—tall spires of rock sculpted by millions of years of erosion.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2025
The bats that once lived in its rafters are gone, a noisy roof repair is complete, and the roof’s ornate spires have a fresh coat of white paint.
—Mike Ives, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Earlier this month, an American tourist had to undergo emergency surgery after he was impaled on a spire after trying to climb over a fence surrounding the ancient Roman colosseum.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
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CBS News, 2 May 2025
Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park is known for its otherworldly landscape of vibrant red rock hoodoos—tall spires of rock sculpted by millions of years of erosion.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2025
The bats that once lived in its rafters are gone, a noisy roof repair is complete, and the roof’s ornate spires have a fresh coat of white paint.
—Mike Ives, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Earlier this month, an American tourist had to undergo emergency surgery after he was impaled on a spire after trying to climb over a fence surrounding the ancient Roman colosseum.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
Noun
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Charlie Taylor, a sociologist and founder of Charlie’s Toolbox, knows that spiral well.—
Alejandra Rojas,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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But a few decades ago, the village fell into a spiral of alcohol addiction and gambling.—
Ahmer Khan,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2025
Noun
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But in Chile 28 percent of kids had a counterclockwise whorl.—
Bethany Brookshire,
Scientific American,
31 Oct. 2024
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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 brand says this mattress is made with seven layers of these natural materials as well as over 2,400 steel coils.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
20 June 2025
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Instead of being interconnected, each coil stays in its own lane (pocket, really) and will compress uninhibited by the other coils around it.—
Julia Forbes,
Wired News,
17 June 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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Many are created in order to address a concern (dandruff, breakage, brittleness) or to work most effectively for a specific hair type (4C curls, wavy hair, gray hair).—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
30 June 2025
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These can range from bodyweight exercises like squats to traditional lifts like curls and rows.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
24 June 2025
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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