façade
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And the occasional cracks in what might be called her monumental façade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
A Hezbollah flag had been put on what was left of the façade of his grocery, destroyed after an Israeli air strike hit the building next door last month.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
“The façade was badly deteriorated, and the interior was … well, let’s say it was very lived-in,” according to their architect, Ben Bischoff.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
A day later, crews could be seen etching the president's name on the building's façade.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
They came to the brilliantly lighted façade of a big vaudeville house.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Beyer Blinder Belle, lead developer on the building's exterior, enlisted a speciality manufacturer in California to replicate and restore thousands of terra-cotta pieces from the facade, reinstalling each by hand.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The facade has vertical ridges running down the side, which Diamond said was inspired by the ribs of Saguaro cactuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"Help, here's my dead mother," Mirosnel Gordon wrote in black paint on the green facade of a house.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
I noticed a discolored outline on the building’s facade where the Hilton logo used to be, back when the place had been a hotel.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
The fortunes of Havana's colonial buildings mirror that of the nearly seven-decade-old revolution, their peeling pastel-colored facades are symbols of the repeated crises that have rocked the island, and its surprising resilience.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The ornate exterior, with its tapering towers and multiple facades, has an almost organic quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
While the grounds have yet to be landscaped, the structures designed to house foster siblings together are clearly taking shape, featuring white facades, gray rooftops, and numerous windows.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
Brick facades and chimneys still The USS Malvern.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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