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plaza

[plah-zuh, plaz-uh] / ˈplɑ zə, ˈplæz ə /
NOUN
central location, spot
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The plaza is one of the museum’s most powerful gestures, creating much-needed civic room for Expo Park, and the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

In Aberdeen, the building that used to house BHS - a department store shuttered in 2016 - is being converted into an entrance plaza for the new food and drink market.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

It consists of two bulbous pods of uneven size, joined by an aerial bridge that shades a public plaza below.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The work of artist and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, the new garden has been expanded to some 60 sculptures while its relationship to the National Mall and to the Hirshhorn Museum’s plaza has been strengthened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Racing along behind, Reynie saw his friends across the plaza, staring after him in wonder and not a little apprehension.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Just a few miles away at LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries, visitors can enter the plazas beneath that building without first passing through security.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The plan includes 25 acres of publicly accessible open space that supports uses such as parks, plazas, walking and biking trails, recreation centers and picnic areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I won’t miss the stops for fast food and comfort breaks in windswept concourses of highway service plazas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

These works reveal the evolution of Noguchi’s designs for furniture, kimonos, theatrical productions, plazas, gardens and his unrealized “Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

It cracks me up how expensive restaurants, located in what are basically outdoor shopping plazas, give themselves these snooty, fancy names.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper




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