façade
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On a severely damaged façade there's a sign:
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
What better place to reflect on that proposition than a spot just 12 blocks south of Hunt’s apogee: the façade of the Met.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
The audience should not see it at first, but Brandon Hardy’s golden looks and charming manner are a façade.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
It has become a rallying point for Tibetan activists, below the turquoise-windowed facade of the UN.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
We’re entering Los Angeles, circa 1981, and just like the Overlook Hotel, danger lurks beneath a glamorous facade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
They include one person who Trump claimed had used a blade "put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
I step back to study the hotel’s ornate and weathered facade.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Across Havana, the ravages of time, lack of maintenance and overcrowding is writ large in the facades of one of the best preserved colonial cities in the Americas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Today, many factories are vacant, with for-rent signs hanging on their facades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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
Across their facades ran enormous plates of polished gold.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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