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Recent Examples of pierPart of the seawall by the pier was washed out, as was a section of the road on the east tip of the island, Cozzie said.—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025 But fishing isn’t the only way to enjoy the pier’s magic.—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025 On the center pier — a vertical support structure — five out of the six timber beams showed severe decay.—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 1 Feb. 2025 But there’s not enough of the material, and beaches south of the Oceanside pier are shrinking at an increasing rate.—Philip Diehl, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pier
Thanks to its clever tech and self-cleaning dock, the machine can run for seven weeks without human intervention.
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Will Porter,
Architectural Digest,
5 Feb. 2025
The cantilevered rooftop deck is outfitted with a wet bar, ample seating space, and panoramic views, while a cascading terrace at the back of the house includes a shaded dining spot, a circular spa and a turquoise swimming pool, an outdoor shower, and a private dock with a boat lift.
Designed to evoke the Pantheon, the rotunda’s curved sandstone walls are divided by fluted Doric pilasters with wreaths of olive branches carved in the frieze above.
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Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
Though more stately in its setting of classical pilasters and marble floors, the lobby El Bar del Majestic is pretty hopping too with live piano music.
Foundational pillars of our culture and our history came through so much sacrifice and so much collective experience.
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Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an absolute pillar of astronomy — holds true.
On a dank quay beneath Paris’s Pont Alexandre III, a beauty moment of epic proportions was born.
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Jessica Diner,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2025
But security and logistical concerns — and an outcry from booksellers along the city’s picturesque quays — have led the government to progressively scale back its ambitions.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2024
And right beside the win-loss column — subject to your opinion of the person running the operation — there’s a skyscraper of either explanations or excuses.
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Brian Hamilton,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
It would be welcomed if Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper would publicly express their individual opinions and solutions via a guest column in The Denver Post.
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