terrace
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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
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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
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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
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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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