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Salma Hayek and her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, were two of the more than 1,500 guests to attend Saturday's reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral more than five years after a fire tore through its iconic spire.
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Tracy Wright, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
The catastrophic blaze destroyed the roof and spire of the historic medieval cathedral in Paris caught fire in April2019, after which French President Emmanuel Macron set a five year deadline for its restoration, which cost around $737 million, according to the BBC.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its rectangular towers.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
In his article, Doane says, Around 2,000 people helped rebuild, from a foundry in Normandy that re-tuned the bells which rang out again this weekend, to those scouring forests for centuries-old oak, to find a thousand pieces of French oak to rebuild the spire.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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Tracy Wright, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
The catastrophic blaze destroyed the roof and spire of the historic medieval cathedral in Paris caught fire in April2019, after which French President Emmanuel Macron set a five year deadline for its restoration, which cost around $737 million, according to the BBC.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its rectangular towers.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
In his article, Doane says, Around 2,000 people helped rebuild, from a foundry in Normandy that re-tuned the bells which rang out again this weekend, to those scouring forests for centuries-old oak, to find a thousand pieces of French oak to rebuild the spire.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
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The loss was Day’s first to an unranked opponent and fourth in a row to the rival Wolverines, sending the Ohio State fan base into a spiral.Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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And then all of the guest hosting and all of those elements, the staff was in something of a spiral.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
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This technique would be similar to how forensic scientists match fingerprints today, by comparing just a few points of interest rather than the entire whorl.Adam Czajka, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2019
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Pinball machines rely on small coils of wound copper wire, electromagnets that eject a plunger that pushes or pulls a mechanism to send the silver ball flying in a new direction.Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
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Prevent the coils from coming apart in storage by securing them with a ribbon or oversized twist tie.Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
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There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
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In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021
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Google Images shows a young man with a head of enviable black curls (unlike the head of fifty-one-year-old Thadeus Wong).Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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The chainmail dress was paired with Lorraine Schwartz jewels, while the star’s brunette hair was styled in loose curls.Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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