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mall

[mawl, mal] / mɔl, mæl /
NOUN
commercial complex with many individual retail stores
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NOUN
shopping center
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And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

A white veil from Claire’s at the mall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Instead of his house, we were at a New Age event venue in a strip mall that also contains an apothecary, a dry cleaner, and a head shop.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

John gets a job as a fry cook at a restaurant called Shrimp Castle; Helen, who used to be a saleswoman at luxury shops, works on consignment for a home-goods store in an outdoor mall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

It could be felt just walking down the Váci Utca, the city’s principal mall street, with shops of all kinds selling wares.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

"This is petrol stations, it's shopping malls, it's business centres, but it's especially energy infrastructure, energy transmission lines, and so on. There is absolutely no justification for that," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Drones are readily available at specialised electronics shops across the province, with AFP finding them in around a dozen such stores in shopping malls in Peshawar alone.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Which brings up my weakness for videos of rogue activity at malls and street festivals in places where humanoids are less expensive to make and deploy, especially China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Foot Locker, which opened its first store in 1974, expanded as shopping malls opened across the U.S. through the 1980s.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

A few minutes earlier, we’d been on a busy road, driving through four-way intersections, past strip malls and fast-food restaurants, but as we neared the apartment building, all of that had given way.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez




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