as in cathedral
a large, magnificent, or massive building
a hill from which one can gaze upon the towers of that great and historic city
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Recent Examples of tower
Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
About a quarter-mile down the road, two soaring launch towers – one for each launch pad – sit sentry on SpaceX’s launch site as workers mill around.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
Our writers also paid tribute to towering figures who died in 2024, including actor James Earl Jones, painter Faith Ringgold and record producer Quincy Jones.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
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Genghis Khan and his Silk Road Mongols, wily prospectors leading gold-rush donkeys, living tiki towers being climbed by monkeys.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
About a quarter-mile down the road, two soaring launch towers – one for each launch pad – sit sentry on SpaceX’s launch site as workers mill around.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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The prequel is meant to fill in the blanks of a towering figure within the franchise’s lore.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
Our writers also paid tribute to towering figures who died in 2024, including actor James Earl Jones, painter Faith Ringgold and record producer Quincy Jones.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
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Fabric of rebirth The iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is finally open to the public again after a devastating fire damaged it five years ago.AJ Willingham, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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The ceremony to mark the cathedral's return to religious services featured guests such as French President Emmanuel Macron, Trump, first lady Jill Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the U.K.'s Prince William.Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Dec. 2024
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For their safety and yours, cats and birds should always be discouraged from climbing or flying into your tree!Dr. Nick Goltz, Hartford Courant, 21 Dec. 2024
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Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index climbed 0.1%, after an unrevised 0.3% gain in October.Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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Inside the late-19th-century edifice, designed by architect Thomas R. Jackson, firm founders Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch have surveyed their lighting designs for Roman and Williams Guild, among them 12 new introductions.Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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The eye-catching five-story edifice, originally built in 1857, is inspired by the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre Museum in Paris—a place dear to the house’s founder, Félix Courvoisier, who introduced the brand in 1828.Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the video, the girl crawls around, and one of her legs randomly ascends into the air.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Don’t look now, but the Season 50 cast is just packed with ascending talent, from the reliably loopy Sarah Sherman to the masterfully extreme everyman Andrew Dismukes.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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The 76-year-old British monarch delivered his speech from Fitzrovia Chapel, a community space in London and a former hospital chapel, circumventing tradition as typically monarchs deliver their holiday remarks from a castle or a palace.Filip Timotija, The Hill, 25 Dec. 2024
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The ruler undertook extensive construction projects, including palaces, temples and city fortifications.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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The new lawsuit adds to the mounting fallout from Lively’s legal complaint filed last week in California.Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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From mounting home care expenses, to the ability of caregivers to attend to their own lives, to the role of federal and state governments in providing support, research, and direction, the growing impact of Alzheimer’s will be as profound as any other health care crisis faced by our nation.Charles Fuschillo, New York Daily News, 26 Dec. 2024
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This makes the nation’s opportunity structure more pluralistic, allowing individuals to pursue opportunity through many avenues linked to labor-market demands.Bruno V. Manno, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Both men are known for architecturally complex structures; exaggerated volumes; garments with emphatic lines; the use of new materials; monochromatic abstraction; monastic profiles, and a focus on anonymity, both in their designs and their approach to public exposure.Miles Socha, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
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Beyond driver action, the tool includes a pry bar for opening lids, lifting nails, serving as a box cutter and more.Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
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Used consistently, the formula can give the lashes a curled, lifted look without the help of a prescription drug.Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Tower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tower. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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