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Recent Examples of spire
The skyscraper is styled with gold lettering and a red, white and blue spire.
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Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
In 2019, fire swept across the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris during renovation work on the landmark structure; the blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its iconic rectangular towers.
—ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
The spire is, forgive me, inspired.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
There are rim trails and Spider Rock, the canyon's iconic sandstone spire soaring 800 feet above the canyon floor.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2026
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Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
In 2019, fire swept across the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris during renovation work on the landmark structure; the blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its iconic rectangular towers.
—ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
The spire is, forgive me, inspired.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
There are rim trails and Spider Rock, the canyon's iconic sandstone spire soaring 800 feet above the canyon floor.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
Noun
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One victim of such a spiral would be the Treasury market, the largest bond market in the world.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Those public comments made by ownership reverberated throughout the Knicks locker room amid a spiral of nine losses in 11 games.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
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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
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Attached to the back of each mirror are about 700 tiny magnets that are pushed and pulled by electromagnetic coils to enable the mirrors to change their shape thousands of times per second to remove the atmospheric jitter.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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The factory coils are in many cases better than some aftermarket parts.—
John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast,
Hartford Courant,
17 Apr. 2026
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Kim lets out a sob and a hank of Natalie’s hair clings to her tears.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
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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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The micro workouts included moves like rotini spiral planks, spaghetti curls and penne plié squats, along with star jacks, which were inspired by the new Protein+ star shape.—
Chiara Kim,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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Earlier this week, she was seen filming with tight '80s curls.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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