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plaza

[plah-zuh, plaz-uh] / ˈplɑ zə, ˈplæz ə /
NOUN
central location, spot
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Silva, a housewife, rests on a bench in the plaza, a few meters from a military checkpoint.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

To the east, the city’s Department of Transportation plaza is a fenced-off eyesore.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

They sang gospel, religious, and protest songs from the civil rights movement together, their voices carrying across the plaza.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The trove of fossils found during the museum’s expansion gets a fitting tribute in a 75,000 square-meter swath of concrete on the plaza scored with ropelike patterns, paw prints and serpent-like shapes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The plaza was empty, and he saw no lookouts on the paths, no boats on the water, no one on the distant bridge.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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