terrace
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I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
From above, an outdoor terrace is outfitted especially for hosting recruits or other luminaries, complete, for the time being, with basketball courts and pickleball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
AFP saw walkways, sun loungers and a restaurant terrace at the hotel deserted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Designed by acclaimed architecture firm Olson Kundig, the 2,900-square-foot residence features two bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, and a spacious terrace overlooking the Hollywood Hills.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
After a while, Dad opens the terrace door.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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There are also three docks, a pool, and terraces surrounding the property.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Grade II listed building divided opinion when it first opened but is now widely regarded as a landmark of brutalist architecture, with its textured concrete, riverside terraces and three auditoriums.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Whether made with Aperol, Campari or Sarti, the spritz has rapidly established itself on terraces across Europe -- with Italy's Campari Group now hoping to conquer the heart of America.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Sculpted into the eastern landscape, a series of stone terraces with a bluestone bar directly overlook Greenwich Cove and the vast protected expanse of Greenwich Point Park.”
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Worried about losing their man, Harper and the others pursued him to the area of the terraces and Harper tackled him.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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One side of the terraced row of houses on Llewellyn Street was demolished and replaced by the motorway, leaving the remaining side staring at either a huge concrete embankment or pillars propping up the M4.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
As we climbed the terraced pools of the West Kill, I concentrated on keeping my cast short and precise until I caught my first brook trout, or “brookie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Filled with eccentric decorative touches that mirrored Simmons’ vibrant public persona, the property features everything from staircase cherubs and boldly patterned wallpaper to curved French doors, terraced gardens, and a key-shaped swimming pool.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
In this instance, the waste is a discarded bed frame and other furniture, dumped on a street of redbrick terraced houses off the town's Dallow Road.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
He reached the end of the hall, descended the stairs, and stepped outside, onto what had once been a terraced path, garden-enclosed.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Much of the railroad-tie terracing had been damaged as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
If you look through the history books, it is 30 years since Norwich won at Anfield - in the last game played in front of the Kop when it was still terracing.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
A unique feature of their farming was a method of terracing the hillsides on the southern slopes of the large sandstone plateau to prevent soil erosion.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In 2011, they began a fresh exploration of the city’s northeastern edge, a kind of premature suburban sprawl originally dedicated to agricultural terracing that had been converted for funerary and artisanal purposes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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