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dome

[dohm] / doʊm /


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Prada’s strategy is on display beneath the soaring glass dome of Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, where the company spent more than three years renovating around its original 1913 store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The host of “Otherworld” podcast had spoken to someone who experienced something unexplained at the mysterious dome in the Mojave Desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Additionally, the heat dome in the region has been moving away eastward, allowing for the moisture to build up in the atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

"But also work is going on, on the dome, to build the floor and get ready for the installation of the dome... it's an exciting point that we're at."

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

For the next three years, the lava ran down in spines and pooled to create another dome, just to the south of the one that had been built up more than two decades before.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

At Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the capital's large medieval monastery and cultural heritage site, the golden domes of the Dormition Cathedral were hit.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

It had an observatory and planetarium and featured custom-built domes, specialized solar-observation telescopes, and a natural science education centre.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

But what an image: an observatory dome bubbling out of a boil of smaller domes, like an idea simmering in a crucible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Over time, vegetation spreading beyond the domes could gradually add oxygen to the wider atmosphere, although the team estimates that natural oxygen production alone would require roughly a thousand years.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Everything around it was short and tan, and even the domes were only a few stories high.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

At the time, the Hollywood mogul and actress unveiled ambitious plans to dramatically overhaul the estate with a 27,000-square-foot, five-story riding facility featuring a domed roof and underground horse stables.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The researchers envision beginning inside enormous domed habitats about 100 meters tall.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Whatever these domed stadiums are, they’re not nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Three of the 16 venues to be used this summer — in Atlanta, Houston and Arlington, Texas — are domed and climate-controlled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

The domed ceiling shook, and the giant’s voice echoed through the room, magnified a hundred times.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

This means exercising the feet with toe curls and foot doming.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

I understood what was happening as I was sucked back and down under a ceiling of doming water.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020

“I mean, you lived through so many changes. The last gasp of industrialization. Climate change remediation. The doming of the cities. Rewilding on every continent. The death of scarcity. The privacy wars. What’s it like?”

From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2019

Spreading is hypothesized to start within a continental area with up-warping or doming related to an underlying mantle plume or series of mantle plumes.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The saplings shuddered with every tug he made, and they all grew taller and thicker, doming inward, until they touched at the top.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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