edifice
Example Sentences
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Thick layers of sediment rich in organic material lie beneath the volcanic edifice.
From Science Daily
“The market was priced for perfection and now the concerns about AI and a pause in Fed rate cutting are spreading cracks through the edifice of perfection,” Wilmington Trust’s Roth said.
I took the elevator back down to street level and hopped a cab toward the strangely antique edifice.
The Coast Guard decommissioned the St. George Reef Lighthouse in 1975, replacing the grand edifice with a floating, automated buoy light.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a procession of people with nothing in common save the desire to climb the steps and enter this edifice: a public library in the middle of Ohio.
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