sky-scraping

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He earned second-team All-Pro honors last season and received sky-scraping marks from analytics site Pro Football Focus.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Perhaps its most exhilarating moment comes during the penultimate, title track: In the middle of the song, a politely restrained, ukulele-accompanied ditty explodes into a sky-scraping, distortion-charged power ballad.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021

As Trump looks ahead to his reelection bid, the president enjoys a vise grip on the GOP and its machinery, as well as overwhelming support among Republican voters, with a sky-scraping 90% approval rating.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019

Schneider later created the sky-scraping Cairo Hotel, whose construction prompted District officials to pass height restrictions.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2018

Syme had never seen any of the sky-scraping buildings in America, so he could only think of the buildings in a dream.

From The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)