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spire

[spahyuhr] / spaɪər /


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A red, white and blue spire sits atop the multistory tower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

This base allowed to soar last Sunday’s spire of victory at another Jack Hughes’s laboring hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Barcelona stretched out in every direction, a mosaic of old stone, glass and spire, Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia standing like an undone sentry among the rest.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025

The fire on 15 April 2019 destroyed the medieval roof-timbers, the spire and three sections of stone vaulting.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2024

Find two known points—he’ll choose the cathedral spire and the outer island of Le Petit Be—then calculate the location of the third and unknown point.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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