rotunda
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Beneath the rotunda, Trump also showed Xi the US constitution, the document that set out the principles of the country's democratic government two and a half centuries ago.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Then head inside on the second floor rotunda to see the marvelous California history mural and the breathtaking globe chandelier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
He turns and gives her a smile after delivering that line inside the Capitol rotunda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Parents filed into the gym from the rotunda, holding popcorn and hot dogs and wearing shirts that read “Go Sabres!”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
A famous example was a 1986 column on the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s proposal to expand its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building by erecting a rectangular tower behind the smaller of the building’s two rotundas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The domed rotundas are now listed buildings which have seen a variety of uses over the years.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
Arenas and stadiums are circumscribed spaces — rotundas if you will — with miniature societal compacts, and when you lack self-management in that space, you get ejected.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021
TV news crews often do live hits and interviews from both rotundas.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2019
He no longer noticed the distances, the pictures, or the statues in the vaulted dome, but passed through the vast rotundas with no thought of them.
From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland
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