grain elevator
noun
: a building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain
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But in two dozen recent interviews along Colorado’s Highway 52 — a two-lane blacktop road punctuated by grain elevators, feedlots and oil pumpjacks — Trump voters echoed the president's logic.
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Brad Brooks, USA Today, 16 May 2026
The concrete silos were still operating as a grain elevator in 1990, when an early-morning explosion blew the roof off the structure and rattled nearby homes, according to the Houston Post archives.
—Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026
The only other Wisconsin location, according to Cargill's website, is a La Crosse grain elevator.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 11 Feb. 2026
The new restaurant at 405 Sixth St., Waukee, sits in the shadow of the grain elevators in Old Town.
—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 15 Jan. 2026
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Brad Brooks, USA Today, 16 May 2026
The concrete silos were still operating as a grain elevator in 1990, when an early-morning explosion blew the roof off the structure and rattled nearby homes, according to the Houston Post archives.
—Marissa Luck, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026
The only other Wisconsin location, according to Cargill's website, is a La Crosse grain elevator.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 11 Feb. 2026
The new restaurant at 405 Sixth St., Waukee, sits in the shadow of the grain elevators in Old Town.
—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Grain elevator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grain%20elevator. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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