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Recent Examples of pagoda
One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.
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Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Both Hai and Thida’s homes are facing destruction — his pagoda, her cinema — and the consequences of the Cambodian genocide loom large in their present lives.
—Blake Simons, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
On the terrace, Nevins had installed a koi pond, a pagoda, and a bar.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
Now, adventurous theatergoers are immersing themselves in a different sort of experience, one involving a tall, twisting pagoda tree.
—Joey Sims Shuran Huang For The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
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Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Both Hai and Thida’s homes are facing destruction — his pagoda, her cinema — and the consequences of the Cambodian genocide loom large in their present lives.
—Blake Simons, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
On the terrace, Nevins had installed a koi pond, a pagoda, and a bar.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
Now, adventurous theatergoers are immersing themselves in a different sort of experience, one involving a tall, twisting pagoda tree.
—Joey Sims Shuran Huang For The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pagoda
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Among other gun tragedies in the nation was the 2017 attack on a mosque by 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six and wounded five.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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In January 2017, a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, the capital of Quebec province, left six people dead and 19 others wounded, according to the office of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The building, a former power plant abandoned in the ‘80s, looms over the crowd like a monolithic temple to techno.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Feb. 2026
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Valentino, for instance, held a three-day lantern festival in January at Tianhou Palace, a historic temple along the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were both convicted after a trial at Preston Crown Court, which began a week after an unrelated deadly attack on a synagogue in the nearby northwest city of Manchester.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement Lindsay unloaded the car and met several of the pastors, who shared the story of the church’s founding and its connective roots to the synagogue.—
Lindsay Baach Friedmann,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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More recently, controversies like a Pokemon card game event that was originally planned to be held at a shrine to honor Japan’s war dead still triggered angry comments on Chinese social media, but no obvious broader repercussions.—
Chan Ho-Him,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Prosecutors also say Gray was aware his son was obsessed with mass school shootings and had a shrine in his bedroom dedicated to the Parkland, Florida, shooter.—
La'Tasha Givens,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Pagoda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pagoda. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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