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terrace

[ter-uhs] / ˈtɛr əs /


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The advanced terrace system made the Aztecs self-sufficient in food, he says, “allowing them to create their empire.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

"Amazon is primed to buy Liverpool Football Club" is the Daily Star's lead story, quipping "you'll never deliver alone!" – a cheeky reference to the club's terrace anthem.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

From above, an outdoor terrace is outfitted especially for hosting recruits or other luminaries, complete, for the time being, with basketball courts and pickleball.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

“Where is she to-night? She’s not been on the terrace once.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Its essence was its array of cantilevered terraces, set at right angles to one another and projecting deep out into space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

This is the view from downstream, looking up at the house and its welter of projecting terraces.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

There are also three docks, a pool, and terraces surrounding the property.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Roberto de Zerbi, the manager who saved Spurs from relegation last season, was raised on the terraces of Brescia's 'curva' by his father, Alfredo, who was president of the supporters' clubs.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Halls and galleries drifted past: graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

One side of the terraced row of houses on Llewellyn Street was demolished and replaced by the motorway, leaving the remaining side staring at either a huge concrete embankment or pillars propping up the M4.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

In a separate incident in Greenisland, Carrickfergus, the fire service dealt with a row of terraced houses, along with two oil tanks and a shed, on fire.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

As we climbed the terraced pools of the West Kill, I concentrated on keeping my cast short and precise until I caught my first brook trout, or “brookie.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Filled with eccentric decorative touches that mirrored Simmons’ vibrant public persona, the property features everything from staircase cherubs and boldly patterned wallpaper to curved French doors, terraced gardens, and a key-shaped swimming pool.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

Flush with wealth, Tiwanaku city swelled into a marvel of terraced pyramids and grand monuments.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It is believed changes include replacing seating in some areas of the ground with terracing, reducing press facilities and altering the hospitality layout as well as the plans for WiFi infrastructure.

From BBC Nov. 20, 2024

Much of the railroad-tie terracing had been damaged as well.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

A unique feature of their farming was a method of terracing the hillsides on the southern slopes of the large sandstone plateau to prevent soil erosion.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

In 2011, they began a fresh exploration of the city’s northeastern edge, a kind of premature suburban sprawl originally dedicated to agricultural terracing that had been converted for funerary and artisanal purposes.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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