floor
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The ground floor will remain fully open all of next year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
When the Knicks take the floor Tuesday night for their first regular-season game since their championship parade, however, it will be much easier to imagine things going wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
That floor holds about 35,000 square feet of gallery space, so its closing represents a significant paring back for a period of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"MMA recognizes the ocean floor surrounding American Samoa carries cultural, economic, and environmental significance, requiring that the pursuit of national security and energy readiness is balanced with rigorous environmental stewardship," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Everywhere I looked, every centimeter of floor space, was occupied.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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High school sports programs are filled with dozens of volunteers — manning the snack bar, taking tickets, helping provide security, cleaning floors, carrying equipment and taking statistics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
"The ground floor was hit, and the floors above just collapsed," acting Mayor Regina Kharchenko told Ukrainian television, speaking from the scene.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He offered to mop the floors at OpenAI to get his foot in the door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The unit features hardwood floors and built-in bookshelves and storage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
She’d rather vacuum popcorn off her theater floors than deal with them.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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“Obviously the guy was floored just to see me, let alone to see Mark,” Kasten said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
From the panels to the exhibit hall, I was floored by the number of artists, the collectibles and the displays.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Emma Little-Pengelly said that people who worked alongside Donaldson over the past 20 years are "floored, shocked and utterly repulsed".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
We were floored by how many of you wrote in—so many rich, personal stories that we could only make room for a handful here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Well, you can imagine how this floored the real Beatrix.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Upon entering the home, guests are greeted with checkered flooring and a grand staircase.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
She still isn’t a fan of the linoleum flooring or the brown painted cabinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, building-materials suppliers, such as roofing and flooring manufacturers, have struggled to make up lost business as homeowners opt to stay in their current homes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
She crawls along the center beam, from which the narrow planks of flooring emanate, toward the stone bulk of the chimney at the far end.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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