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height

[hahyt] / haɪt /




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Officials have long known the height of the city’s historic seawalls and bulkheads, which were built in the early to mid-1900s, would not hold up to rising tides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

He has the conventions of attractiveness, from his height to his pearly whites to the almost strategic amount of smile lines he has, but add them up and you somehow don’t leave with much.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

I had to buy another home at the height of the market and now have a substantial mortgage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Georgia coaster, which was touted as a “steel monster” when it first opened two decades ago, reaches a height of 200 feet and speeds up to 70 miles an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

A man and a young woman climbed a ladder set into the wall, careless of the dizzying height, to the roof, where they began untying the longmas from their harnesses.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The sculptural possibilities of paper reach new heights later in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

After two disappointing seasons in which, by his own admission, he failed to hit the heights expected, there may be those who had forgotten what he can produce.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

This one did something else, reaching extreme heights but never achieving the sustained success of more entrenched conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its instruments have also begun measuring ocean heights and the elevation of Greenland's massive ice sheet, providing an early demonstration of technology designed to monitor Earth's changing climate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

She wasn’t afraid of heights, but the thought of being so high up with nothing but glass to protect her made her stomach clench.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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