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Recent Examples of spiredIts terra-cotta walls and spired boxwoods signal the style instantly, and inside are huge arched wooden doors and bespoke kitchen tiling.—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024 Across the Rio Grande in Matamoros, church bells would ring and the spired cathedrals would remind the Irish soldiers of the old world.—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024 Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city’s historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters.—Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023 It and the campsite are stunningly situated on Dickson Lake, which is bounded by a spired glacier at the far end of the water that lights up pink with the sunrise.—Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023 The single-spired, single-story, 25,000-square-foot edifice will be New Mexico’s second temple.—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022 Two other pioneer-era Utah temples — the iconic six-spired Salt Lake Temple, now shrouded in scaffolding, and the treasured Manti Temple — are undergoing major renovations as well.—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022 The single-spired, single-story, 19,000-square-foot temple will be the fifth in Argentina, home to more than 470,000 members.—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022 The double-spired, three-story, 81,000-square-foot structure is one of 28 existing or planned temples in Utah (seven of them in Utah County).—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
Gellar paired the dress with pointed toe orange sherbet-tone pumps by Le Silla.
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Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
15 July 2025
Gale’s descriptions of the unsavory conditions in the grocery and the dairy farm are milder than what Upton Sinclair describe in The Jungle, published in 1905, but they are equally pointed.
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Deborah Williams
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025
The find came during an impressive outing for the 36-year-old Democrat on Joe Rogan’s podcast in which the aspiring preacher espoused the same brand of sharp sound bytes that has earned him almost a million TikTok followers.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 July 2025
Colbert brought a sharper, politically critical timbre.
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