tall
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As with his mother, who wrote tall tales during his Northern Irish youth, Cohn resorted to literary imagination and exaggeration to bring the story to life.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Where tall canopy trees were retained or the cleared patches were small, common understory species such as acacia dominated.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Matching the success of the 2025 film slate was always going to be a tall order, particularly when so many of Warner Bros.’ movies that year overperformed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It had grown too tall for the glass house and had to be cut down and couldn't be stored.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
A tall sallow-faced young man arrived from Pickwick one morning to teach me how to conduct the drills.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
More than that, though, there was the person-to-person interplay: jokes about who’s taller, jokes about who’s the better singer, jokes about who knows the difference between La Cienega and La Brea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"She's 18 inches taller than me, I've got a Yorkshire accent and she's got a Northern Irish accent," Mindy says.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Titanic was only 78 feet longer and 40 feet taller from keel to smokestack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The other intruder, who was noticeably taller, disappeared into the hallway.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“And you really are taller than me,” she said, holding her hand up to my head.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Could downtown L.A. claim not just the tallest building west of the Mississippi River but also in the entire country?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
BERKELEY, Calif.—Inside Berkeley’s tallest office building, a small community of artificial intelligence researchers at a co-working space called Constellation has been mobilizing to save the world from apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
He’ll presumably be the tallest person in California carrying water bottles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be Europe's tallest has been formally unveiled in a small Polish village.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Compared to Chi-Boy’s six-plus feet, I wasn’t the tallest, but I did have the longest hair of any of the boys, almost to my waist, burnt ombré at the untrimmed edges.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
