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terrace

[ter-uhs] / ˈtɛr əs /


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Some seating would be seasonal on an awning-covered rooftop terrace.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

But glasses have been reserved for visitors planning to watch from the visitor attraction's rooftop terrace available on a first-come, first-served, basis.

From BBC Aug. 11, 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

He would stand in a crowd with the other people from the estate, and then drink cider at the long table arranged for them in one corner of the terrace.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

From agricultural terraces to temple ruins under Mexico City to art collections and more, tourists can get a glimpse of Aztec life from 500 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 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

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

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Cecil Wright & Partners, a luxury yacht broker, filed the legal action in London’s High Court over Storonsky’s acquisition of Nixie, a 102-meter vessel with four terraces and an Indian teak deck.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Ghiscari faces were visible on the terraces, looking down with cool and unsympathetic eyes.

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

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

Oren Brown, 27, usually works in a dedicated office room but says his terraced house in County Durham is "horribly stifling upstairs".

From BBC Jun. 25, 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

We pass a long line of terraced row houses.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

The official capacity was just more than 31,000, although three-quarters of the ground was terracing.

From BBC May 23, 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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