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Recent Examples of skyscraper
Topped with a fluffy meringue that’s as high as a skyscraper, the filling’s sharp tartness is a nice counterbalance to the rich, carb-heavy foods typically found on the holiday table.
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Nila Do Simon, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
The law is also being invoked by another developer seeking to build a 239-foot-tall skyscraper with 22 stories and a rooftop deck in Pacific Beach.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Like the towering, glittery skyscrapers that could be seen Monday night from the 65th floor of the Rainbow Room in Midtown Manhattan, the fashion life can look impressive from the outside.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Kinahan once gave a visitor from the boxing world a tour of his offices, which occupied a whole floor of a tower next to the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Nila Do Simon, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
The law is also being invoked by another developer seeking to build a 239-foot-tall skyscraper with 22 stories and a rooftop deck in Pacific Beach.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Like the towering, glittery skyscrapers that could be seen Monday night from the 65th floor of the Rainbow Room in Midtown Manhattan, the fashion life can look impressive from the outside.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
Kinahan once gave a visitor from the boxing world a tour of his offices, which occupied a whole floor of a tower next to the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyscraper
Noun
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This week, staffing shortages were also reported in control towers in Austin, Chicago-O’Hare, Nashville, Newark and Reagan National airport, as well as FAA centers in Albuquerque, Cleveland, Denver, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Jacksonville, New York and Washington, DC.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The tower is in Times Square in New York City, where the NFL owners meetings took place.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The drive-thru coffee shop is being built where Pride Cleaners occupied a building that has been taken down.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Oct. 2025
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The condo is one of 275 in the 27-story building, which was built in 1991, according to the listing.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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There were five more minutes left to play — in Emery’s view, sufficient time to attack with greater structure, moving slowly with numbers upfield.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Despite the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn in December 1938 and significant achievements of other German physicists and chemists in research on the structure of the atom, the Nazis were not rushing to put that research to use.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Skyscraper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyscraper. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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