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Recent Examples of high-rise
The head of Kherson’s regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Saturday evening local time that a high-rise building in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson had caught fire after being struck by drones.
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Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2025
Two decades later, most of the city’s high-rise public housing developments are gone, but the transformative second half of the project remains unrealized.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Videos posted online showed water from rooftop swimming pools spilling over the sides of high-rise hotels.
—Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Authorities confirmed a break-in at the Catalyst high-rise apartments around 11:20 p.m. of the same day, with Police sharing belief that the intruders forced their way in sometime between 3:30 P.M. and 11 P.M.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2025
Two decades later, most of the city’s high-rise public housing developments are gone, but the transformative second half of the project remains unrealized.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
Videos posted online showed water from rooftop swimming pools spilling over the sides of high-rise hotels.
—Maya Wei-Haas, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Authorities confirmed a break-in at the Catalyst high-rise apartments around 11:20 p.m. of the same day, with Police sharing belief that the intruders forced their way in sometime between 3:30 P.M. and 11 P.M.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-rise
Adjective
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Dorit arrives first and Boz, as statuesque as all the halls of the Louvre, comes in second.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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By most accounts, Swift is 5-foot-10, about the same height as another notably statuesque star, Zendaya.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Before banging Kevin Gausman’s elevated fastball off the right field wall for a fifth-inning double, Dezenzo had taken five plate appearances across the past nine days.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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These were much larger and more architecturally complex, and they were positioned in elevated, visible locations that were set away from settlements and pastures.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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“High-rise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-rise. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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