dome
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Prada’s strategy is on display beneath the soaring glass dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan’s grand 19th-century shopping gallery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
"We have a new pillar going up through the floor, new dome and a new telescope to carry us forward for a number of decades to come."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
A heat dome early in the month threatened World Cup matches and curbed celebrations of America’s 250th birthday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Everything looked old about it, old and tended, the smooth brick sidewalks, the many-paned windows, the little dome on top of the main building.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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At Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the capital's large medieval monastery and cultural heritage site, the golden domes of the Dormition Cathedral were hit.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
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
And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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
The group placed three old-school arcade-style games inside the Neoclassical DC War Memorial, which is located near the Reflecting Pool in Ash Woods and resembles a domed, open-air bandstand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
A crooked stone path led past a crazy assortment of tiny altars and massive domed vaults.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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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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