skyscraper

noun

Definition of skyscrapernext
as in tower
a very tall building in a city

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Recent Examples of skyscraper Father Time is undefeated, but sometimes the best way to momentarily freeze his effects is to spend a second leaping between two skyscrapers. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025 The banks of the Thames River have hosted human settlements for thousands of years, from Neolithic huts to the soaring skyscrapers of London. — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 Adams allegedly repaid his debts by pulling strings for his benefactors, including meddling in a Manhattan skyscraper’s fire safety regulations to appease Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025 By Liu’s own admission, his firm was always too small to tackle the skyscrapers or mixed-use mega-projects that redrew China’s skylines. — Oscar Holland, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skyscraper
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  1. tower
  2. building
  3. structure
Noun
  • Of those 94 open work orders for the three lines, seven were for towers carrying the inactive line, records showed.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • It would have been taken roughly an hour after police allege his phone pinged a cell tower near the crime scene following the quadruple stabbing inside.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of tower
Noun
  • To evade the royal governor in the Colonial capital of Williamsburg, the group met at the largest public building in the then-tiny town of Richmond: a 34-year-old Episcopal church now known as St. John’s.
    — Cassandra Good, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Schools that would move King Elementary School would move into a brand new building, vacating the former Kansas City Middle School of the Arts building on the Paseo Academy campus.
    — Maria Benevento, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of building
Noun
  • The decades had not been kind to the Greek Revival structures, which had changed hands multiple times, suffering neglect, their ornament stripped.
    — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Seen from above, the structure is almost shaped like a drinking straw, with a straight section followed by a curved corner.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of structure

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