terrace
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Afterward the party moved inside from the rooftop terrace for a performance by the Black Eyed Peas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
The 5,000-square-foot home was built in 1852 and comes complete with three bedrooms, sprawling ceilings, and a private terrace.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
The Barbican's distinctive brutalist foyers and lakeside terrace will also be developed to protect the heritage of the building.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
That Premium Lounge is expected to include a second-floor open-air terrace, “continuous food and beverage service,” priority entry and a commemorative gift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Outside on the terrace under the arcade the German head waiter came up.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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The 61st floor, whose exterior features a tribute to the radiator caps of early Chrysler vehicles, is to be converted into a dining space with access to outdoor terraces.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Formal entertaining spaces include a gracious Living Room, dining room, private study, chef’s kitchen with butler’s pantry, family room, and expansive outdoor terraces, while discreet service quarters ensure effortless day-to-day living,” reads the listing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
For generations, summer in Europe has been languid and dreamy, bringing fine weather and lengthy days on sunny beaches and terraces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
At the end of its own cul-de-sac, it was a large modern house of the “architectural” sort, bleached cedar, its split levels and asymmetrical terraces self-consciously bare.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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The house itself serves as a time capsule of Old Hollywood glitz and glamour, with sprawling gardens and terraced lawns perched on 8.4 acres overlooking the Bel-Air Country Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sarah was excitedly packing up to move out of the terraced house her family had outgrown to a four-bedroom home in the countryside.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
From the outside it looks like an ordinary house on a terraced street - but behind lies a tropical jungle complete with some poisonous plants.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
As kids they’d scrabbled down the terraced mountainside like a four-legged, two-headed creature.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The official capacity was just more than 31,000, although three-quarters of the ground was terracing.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
A different report discussed terracing the river upstream from that spot — changing the sloped shape of the sides into steps, “and in those steps, you might insert areas for landscaping to grow,” Weintraub said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
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
The upper-tier will become outdoor terracing for new homes.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
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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