as in height
the distance of something or someone from bottom to top a man of surprisingly great stature

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Recent Examples of stature These versatile bottoms are the perfect length for our short stature, and the wide-leg silhouette looks a tad more like trousers when compared to other yoga pants. Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2025 Oliver Reetz Peter Lürssen’s presence within the fraternity of superyacht shipbuilders—both in stature and respect—is large. Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Artists of the stature of Stanley Kubrick and Dario Argento, with their utterly unique worldview and dazzling visual bag of tricks, were producing film-as-art on a high level. Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 The size and stature of them as an SEC program. Matt Byrne, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stature
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Noun
  • Cities would also generally be prevented from imposing height and density limits based on how close a development is near a transit stop.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Channel Orange, his breakthrough album, preceded Blonde by several years but didn’t reach the same heights.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • Afternoon temperatures topped out in the 80s to mid 90s at lower elevations to the upper 60s and 70s at higher elevations.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This 15-hectare subalpine meadow is at 3,200 m elevation and adjacent to Colorado’s largest wilderness area, with minimal human impact.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Stature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stature. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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