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terrace

[ter-uhs] / ˈtɛr əs /


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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

Outside, tables spilled across a terrace and onto the sand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 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

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

MacDuff leapt up from the terrace and bounded ahead across the weedy lawn, as anxious as we were to get away from the house.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

Here the airborne concrete terraces above were anchored to the earth, reconciling the products of the machine with nature, making Fallingwater the definitive example of what Wright called his “organic architecture.”

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

The parcel features “expansive terraces, sprawling gardens, several guest houses, a tennis court and its own nine-hole golf course,” according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

"Roberto is a man of the terraces, a man of the people: straightforward, loyal and authentic," adds Lamrani.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

By diverting snowmelt from the ever-present Andes icecaps to high farm terraces, Wari was able literally to rise above the drought and flooding of lower elevations.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

We move up towards the two streets of terraced houses which have become the focal point of the disorder.

From BBC Jun. 12, 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

Number 33 was a tall house, spindly-thin, in the middle of a terraced row.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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

“We knew we’d have to do a bit of terracing and retaining, but California is what it is,” Tenney said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2023

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

The terracing and draining systems of the mountain’s forests should safely channel rain from the mountain to the sea.

From New York Times Dec. 3, 2022

The principal reason for its success was its innovative techniques of terracing and irrigation, the latter being used to implement the former.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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