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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 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

The rose-garden lay below, and the eastern part of the terrace, while beyond the rose-garden rose a smooth grass bank, stretching to the near woods.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

“A resort-style pool, tranquil lily ponds, meandering pathways, shaded terraces, and a full-size tennis court create moments of both recreation and quiet reflection, where the sounds of nature replace the pace of everyday life.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 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

Roberto de Zerbi, the manager who saved Spurs from relegation last season, was raised on the terraces of Brescia's 'curva' by his father, Alfredo, who was president of the supporters' clubs.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Today three-quarters of the terraces are abandoned, and the alpine landscape has not regained the productivity it had a thousand years ago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Nearby in Highters Heath, multiple terraced properties caught fire.

From BBC Aug. 14, 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

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

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 roll into Witney station and out again, the train starting to pick up pace as suburbia melts into grimy North London, terraced houses replaced by tagged bridges and empty buildings w'ith broken windows.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

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

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

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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