towered

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Joshua, meanwhile, who towered above Paul during Friday's event, warned he is ready to deliver an emphatic victory.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

Netanyahu has towered over Israeli politics since he became the youngest prime minister in 1996 at age 46.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

The particle accelerator towered over this Pittsburgh suburb built to house Westinghouse workers, and was a symbol of innovation for the company and region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union, the 23m-tall monument towered over the city of Osh for 50 years before it was quietly removed this week.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

Most of the Housatonic’s 155 crewmembers saved themselves by launching lifeboats or by climbing into the ship’s rigging, which towered safely above the harbor’s shallow twenty-seven-foot depth.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler