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Its latest 34-story building on Broadway — near the aboveground 125th Street 1 stop — is on track to be completed in 2024 and will house graduate students and faculty members in 142 apartments.
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Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2024
Out of his garage in Jackson Heights, away from the noisy drum of the aboveground 7 train, Chogyal, now in his mid-70s, prepares tsampa, or roasted barley, a staple often considered to be the national food of Tibet.
—Tenzin D. Tsagong, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023
This will require the destruction of Hamas’s nerve center in Gaza City, its underground facilities, and all its aboveground assets, such as military installations, headquarters, command-and-control centers, communications infrastructure, weapons manufacturing facilities, and arms depots.
—Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
Its neighboring ancient necropolis contains many aboveground monuments, or mastabas, dedicated to the pharaoh’s family members and high-ranking officials.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
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Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2024
Out of his garage in Jackson Heights, away from the noisy drum of the aboveground 7 train, Chogyal, now in his mid-70s, prepares tsampa, or roasted barley, a staple often considered to be the national food of Tibet.
—Tenzin D. Tsagong, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023
This will require the destruction of Hamas’s nerve center in Gaza City, its underground facilities, and all its aboveground assets, such as military installations, headquarters, command-and-control centers, communications infrastructure, weapons manufacturing facilities, and arms depots.
—Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
Its neighboring ancient necropolis contains many aboveground monuments, or mastabas, dedicated to the pharaoh’s family members and high-ranking officials.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
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“Aboveground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aboveground. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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