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Recent Examples of spire
At the Great Pyramids of Giza, her arched, golden globule sat near a sphinx similar in size and color, and recently, her silvery, iridescent spire towered over the Saudi Arabian desert.
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
The architect Norman Foster suggested a glass roof and a glass spire, while the landscape artist and architect Clément Willemin recommended adding a roof garden with wildflowers.
—David A. Bell, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Gary Hershorn captured those same skyscrapers as the moon passed behind the spire of the Empire State Building from Union City, New Jersey, revealing more of the urban skyline as artificial and natural light teamed up to illuminate the night.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026
The skyscraper is styled with gold lettering and a red, white and blue spire.
—Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
The architect Norman Foster suggested a glass roof and a glass spire, while the landscape artist and architect Clément Willemin recommended adding a roof garden with wildflowers.
—David A. Bell, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Gary Hershorn captured those same skyscrapers as the moon passed behind the spire of the Empire State Building from Union City, New Jersey, revealing more of the urban skyline as artificial and natural light teamed up to illuminate the night.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026
The skyscraper is styled with gold lettering and a red, white and blue spire.
—Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spire
Noun
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It's been a downward, but happy spiral since.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Another huge spiral is UGC 2885, or Rubin’s galaxy.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Blue, purple, or white whorls of flowers rise above the strappy foliage in summer.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
5 May 2026
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In most flowers, sepals are a whorl of green, known as a calyx, at the base of the petals, but here sepals, which are pointed, make up the entire inflorescence.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Wiley often wears her hair in a stretched state, combing through her gray coils with a blow dryer before doing a braid-out.—
Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
29 May 2026
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At the Gael and Friends exhibition on May 21, ahead of the 2026 French Open, Osaka took the court with a half-up, half-down hairdo, featuring cornrows on the top of her head and long, inky coils down her back.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Kim lets out a sob and a hank of Natalie’s hair clings to her tears.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
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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
Noun
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While most issues can be resolved, if the curl is caused by a virus, the plant may not recover.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
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The tight braids trailed over the left of her head before forming a double loop and running back toward the forest of curls behind her.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
28 May 2026
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“Spire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spire. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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