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How To Prevent Birds From Hitting Your Windows Believe it or not, skyscrapers aren’t as much of a threat of bird collisions as our houses: It’s estimated that 44 percent of annual collision fatalities occur at residences that are one to three stories tall.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2025
As Boston’s first Art Deco skyscraper constructed in 1928, the building was designed by Massachusetts architect and artist Harold Field Kellogg.
—Emma Kershaw, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Photos of the 10,000-apartment development, released by state news agency KCNA after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un inspected the site Saturday, show residential skyscrapers spilling out from a wide boulevard in the new district, Hwasong.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
The decor is more comforting than mind-blowing, but there’s a lovely terrace area that’s nestled in amongst the skyscrapers.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2025
As Boston’s first Art Deco skyscraper constructed in 1928, the building was designed by Massachusetts architect and artist Harold Field Kellogg.
—Emma Kershaw, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Photos of the 10,000-apartment development, released by state news agency KCNA after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un inspected the site Saturday, show residential skyscrapers spilling out from a wide boulevard in the new district, Hwasong.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
The decor is more comforting than mind-blowing, but there’s a lovely terrace area that’s nestled in amongst the skyscrapers.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyscraper
Noun
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The crescent shape of the new condo tower and its jarring proximity, combined with the formerly soothing prevailing breeze, creates a wind tunnel that rakes across the north side of Building 3 and the driveway entrance, knocking down patio furniture, annihilating hairdos and slamming car doors.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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Spectrum cleared the tower but suffered an anomaly shortly thereafter.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Dunmore decided to remove the ammunition kept in Williamsburg’s Powder Magazine, a whimsical octagonal building in the town’s market square, but patriots posted sentries to guard the colony’s arsenal.—
Andrew Lawler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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People in the area were urged to take cover and move to a basement or interior room on the lowest floor of a building.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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So your suggestions were about altering the structure of the show?—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The structure of the film prior to its (literally) more explosive moments brings revelations that Mendoza and Garland unfold by degrees.—
Fred Schruers,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Skyscraper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyscraper. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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