atop
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Toyota Motor is quickly closing the sales gap with General Motors, threatening to end the American auto giant’s nearly 100-year reign atop the U.S. auto market, the Journal’s Sharon Terlep writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Father and son witnessed Europe's last total solar eclipse together in 1999 while stood atop St Agnes Beacon in Cornwall.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The archaeologists built sterile, temporary structures with temperature and humidity controls, and lowered experts clad in head-to-toe medical gowns into the pits atop bedlike platforms so as to minimize contact with the artifacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
On the east side, the dam was build atop an ancient landslide of mica schist, a type of rock vulnerable to fracturing that would allow moisture to seep inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The dragon, perched atop one of the gerbil cages, was hissing, shrieking, and flapping its tiny wings as if it wanted to lift the whole thing into the air.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
