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skyscraper

[skahy-skray-per] / ˈskaɪˌskreɪ pər /
NOUN
tall building
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The skyscraper, opened in New York nearly 100 years ago, will see its Art Deco crown polished and restored during a refurbishment that will also involve the restoration of the building's 77-storey façade.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The complex fills a city block in the financial district with an office skyscraper, the high-rise Sheraton Grand hotel and a shopping center that is home to a Uniqlo and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Beneath the shadows of indigo-streaked clouds, a young woman strolls through a fog-covered city, stopping at the base of a skyscraper.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Some ended up financing a boxy red skyscraper in downtown Tirana, Albania’s capital, and coastal villas, prosecutors said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The top of the skyscraper was lit up as usual, but the lights seemed to be malfunctioning.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Individual projects still would require zoning reviews, so no need to worry about skyscrapers coming to Silver Lake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He says he felt like an ant walking into the huge facility on his first day in prison; the guard towers reminded him of skyscrapers.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

It adds that 9/11 has left a "deadly legacy", reporting that thousands of people who breathed in the toxic dust that followed the fall of the two skyscrapers have since died from cancer.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

But South Korea's heatwave has made it uninhabitable, forcing him to seek refuge under a makeshift tarp just a stone’s throw from Gangnam’s gleaming skyscrapers, where the wealthy remain cool in their aloof abodes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The sky beyond the cut of skyscrapers is gray, turning grayer, and in a few hours this flurry of snow will become a steady fall.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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