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dome

[dohm] / doʊm /


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Prada’s strategy is on display beneath the soaring glass dome of Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, where the company spent more than three years renovating around its original 1913 store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Jordan’s mural utilizes the flush mount dome in the center of the dining room ceiling as an Art Deco-inspired star motif, with painted white points extending from it for emphasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Van Tassel said he received telepathic instructions for building a metal-free dome that could generate electrostatic energy and eventually help rejuvenate cells and make time travel possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The group is planning to build a new dome and telescope while carrying out repairs and building a new floor.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

It was simple—a small square with a dome framed by four minarets.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

It had an observatory and planetarium and featured custom-built domes, specialized solar-observation telescopes, and a natural science education centre.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

"We have already endured a summer of extremes -- record-shattering heat domes; apocalyptic wildfires raging in Spain, France and far beyond; thousands of lives lost in the scorching conditions," said Guterres.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Lava domes develop when thick magma slowly rises to the surface and piles up around a volcanic opening rather than flowing easily away.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

But what an image: an observatory dome bubbling out of a boil of smaller domes, like an idea simmering in a crucible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

All around them, Manhattan stretched out in rowhouses, great majestic cupolas, church steeples, and glowering government domes.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

At the time, the Hollywood mogul and actress unveiled ambitious plans to dramatically overhaul the estate with a 27,000-square-foot, five-story riding facility featuring a domed roof and underground horse stables.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The researchers envision beginning inside enormous domed habitats about 100 meters tall.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

WSJ: How are today’s domed stadiums different from those of the past?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Three of the 16 venues to be used this summer — in Atlanta, Houston and Arlington, Texas — are domed and climate-controlled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Koffi didn’t stop to think as she yanked the domed cage’s door open and let the birds soar up and into the night in a rainbow of feathers.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

This means exercising the feet with toe curls and foot doming.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

I understood what was happening as I was sucked back and down under a ceiling of doming water.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020

“I mean, you lived through so many changes. The last gasp of industrialization. Climate change remediation. The doming of the cities. Rewilding on every continent. The death of scarcity. The privacy wars. What’s it like?”

From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2019

Spreading is hypothesized to start within a continental area with up-warping or doming related to an underlying mantle plume or series of mantle plumes.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The saplings shuddered with every tug he made, and they all grew taller and thicker, doming inward, until they touched at the top.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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