edifice
Example Sentences
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If programs pay even when the work isn’t done, the edifice collapses and programs lose their reason for being.
What Mr. Puryear’s sculptures catch, however, are baffled viewers who might be wondering: Are his strange objects edifices, weapons or tools?
Most Europeans see trans-Atlanticism as something like an edifice, with a wooden facade built over brick walls sitting on granite foundations.
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.
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