pagoda

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Recent Examples of pagoda More traditional Chinese food is served at the Sea Palace, a floating three-story pagoda near Centraal Station. Jaymi McCann, theweek, 9 Dec. 2024 The pagoda is filled with precious statues, including a wooden Shakyamuni Buddha covered with gold paint. Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024 The showcase gets more stunning each year and features a 50-foot pagoda. Sam Allard, Axios, 11 July 2024 State media also reported that five dams, four pagodas and more than 65,000 houses were destroyed by the flooding. Reuters, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pagoda
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Noun
  • City Council member Shahana Hanif, whose Brooklyn district includes the mosque, and the Democratic Socialists of America chapter of New York City, among others, also chimed in on social media to express their disgust with the masked man’s rhetoric.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Haseki Sultan Complex This large mosque complex in Fatih was the first imperial project of Mimar Sinan.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Also opening this year is the Oberoi Rajgarh Palace, Khajuraho, a 200-year-old historic Maharaja’s palace adjacent to Panna National Park and Tiger Reserve, and also very close to the iconic Khajuraho temples, a UNESCO World Heritage site with a large array of 1100 year old monuments.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The quarrel swiftly escalated when Perez allegedly struck her twice on the left side of her temple and pulled her hair.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The 47-year-old man is accused of spray-painting two churches and a synagogue with profane messages in January and February.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In 2018, 11 people were killed in an attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue.
    Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For all the shortcomings in this nationwide effort, most Germans today set an example of remorse that shames Turkish nationalist leaders equivocating about the Armenian genocide, or rightist Japanese politicians visiting the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo that honors Class A war criminals.
    Gary J. Bass, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Villagers plundered the shrine and sold the bronzes to antiquities dealers like Robert Hecht, who faced allegations of smuggling before his death in 2012.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025

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“Pagoda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pagoda. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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