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high-rise building

NOUN
skyscraper
Synonyms


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This is my memory: it was a high-rise building in Century City, in the offices of “King of the Hill,” so there was a lot of like “King of the Hill” cutouts and stuff there.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“Being on a high-rise building and rappelling down.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

Front-line firefighting staff hadn’t been trained about the risks of fire spreading across the outside of a high-rise building.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024

The city council is weighing a proposal to spend $7.6 million on a 10-year lease to temporarily relocate the police headquarters to a pair of floors in a high-rise building downtown.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024

They had met in an office that was in a high-rise building, so high that Joaquin could see all the way to the ocean.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway




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