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terrace

[ter-uhs] / ˈtɛr əs /


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Outside, tables spilled across a terrace and onto the sand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

The arrangement creates a breezy walk-through from the front yard to the rear terrace.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

They were selling the three-bedroom terrace they'd renovated and buying her parents' four-bedroom detached house in the countryside.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

She had seen me walk slowly from the terrace to the lawns.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The parcel features “expansive terraces, sprawling gardens, several guest houses, a tennis court and its own nine-hole golf course,” according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Whether made with Aperol, Campari or Sarti, the spritz has rapidly established itself on terraces across Europe -- with Italy's Campari Group now hoping to conquer the heart of America.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Although not written as a football song, Noel has spoken of the influence of his time spent on the terraces at the old Maine Road watching Manchester City on his songwriting, Robb recalls.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Sculpted into the eastern landscape, a series of stone terraces with a bluestone bar directly overlook Greenwich Cove and the vast protected expanse of Greenwich Point Park.”

From MarketWatch May 26, 2026

Rendezvous, it says, terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

As we climbed the terraced pools of the West Kill, I concentrated on keeping my cast short and precise until I caught my first brook trout, or “brookie.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

We move up towards the two streets of terraced houses which have become the focal point of the disorder.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

“The gated, private parcel offers dramatic panoramic city views and sweeping vistas, with multiple usable tiers featuring generous flat pads, terraced gardens, and a dedicated pool level,” the description notes.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

Filled with eccentric decorative touches that mirrored Simmons’ vibrant public persona, the property features everything from staircase cherubs and boldly patterned wallpaper to curved French doors, terraced gardens, and a key-shaped swimming pool.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

This was useful information in a terraced society.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

A different report discussed terracing the river upstream from that spot — changing the sloped shape of the sides into steps, “and in those steps, you might insert areas for landscaping to grow,” Weintraub said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2024

If you look through the history books, it is 30 years since Norwich won at Anfield - in the last game played in front of the Kop when it was still terracing.

From BBC Jan. 25, 2024

In addition to constructing dams and irrigation systems, the people of this region collected water from flash floods and used terracing in hilly regions.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

In 2011, they began a fresh exploration of the city’s northeastern edge, a kind of premature suburban sprawl originally dedicated to agricultural terracing that had been converted for funerary and artisanal purposes.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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