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height

[hahyt] / haɪt /




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At the height of the day’s heat, we approached Sazan.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

Jane’s father was the famed Sol Goldman, a scrappy Brooklyn grocer’s son who would at his height amass 1,900 properties across the city, including a stake in the Chrysler Building.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

Many have an emotional interest in building a life around the home itself, measuring their kids’ height on the doorway, watching their kids grow up in the house and then growing old in it.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The letter also questioned what commissioners described as the fence’s “apparent permanency” and said the proposed height ranged from 8 to 11 feet in different sections.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

A few paces off the trail, he found three long black hairs snagged on a twig at about head height.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

In spite of its quarter-mile heights, Windows on the World deviated from lofty and pretentious fine-dining conventions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Motherhood has taken many of us to new emotional lands—sometimes soaring heights, but sometimes far down into dark depths.

From Slate Sep. 5, 2026

A game called "Flappy Bill" features a bald eagle carrying a document in its claws that tries to avoid smashing into columns of various heights, against a background that resembles Washington DC.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Another project combined satellite measurements of water surface heights with observations from drones and instruments on the ground.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

For all I knew, I was somebody who was not afraid of heights.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo




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