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[tou-er] / ˈtaʊ ər /




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The Georgian investment firms signed a branding deal with the Trump family company in May for the 70-story tower.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Tsulaia said in a statement announcing the deal in May that the tower would create a “landmark that will transform the skyline and elevate Georgia’s presence on the global stage.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

He was unconscious for approximately 35 minutes, during which time the second tower also collapsed.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Exactly 40 minutes later, a jet smashed into the 97th floor of the tower - the very floor she had been working on, in a new job she had started less than a fortnight earlier.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

On the roof of the control tower, below the twinkling stars, Roz was speaking with the geese.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

"Somebody came into the office and said a plane had hit the twin towers," he said.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

As has been well documented by the International Association of Firefighters, on the day of the attack, scores of firefighters died because they did not hear the order to evacuate the towers.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

The film recounts French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s astonishing 1974 stunt, in which he and a small band of co-conspirators secretly rigged a cable between the towers, allowing Petit to walk high above lower Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Some witnessed the collapse of the towers, while others searched through piles of debris for human remains.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

From the embankment, they could see two piles of ash and large towers of smoke billowing in the wind.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

A wall of white granite towered above a small team of engineers gathered in a California quarry.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The curved concrete gravity dam towered 1,835 feet above sea level in the San Francisquito Canyon, about 30 miles northwest of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

A tsunami of that size would have towered more than 330 feet above sea level, higher than many modern skyscrapers.

From Science Daily Jun. 30, 2026

Joshua, meanwhile, who towered above Paul during Friday's event, warned he is ready to deliver an emphatic victory.

From Barron's Nov. 21, 2025

The front edge of the glacier was made up of frozen cliffs that towered above the waves, and high up, on one of those cliffs, was Roz.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The tournament is set to draw up to 75,000 spectators to the links course, set among towering dunes on a rugged stretch of County Clare coastline.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

They do not always resemble the towering wall of water people imagine.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

Westlife performed 'World of Our Own' and 'You Raise Me Up', with tens of thousands joining in as phone lights flickered around the towering tiers of Croke Park.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

The DeMilles have built a flower-selling business worth millions, as well as a towering greenhouse where they cultivate their plants—the beautiful, the rare and the poisonous.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

They kept moving forward, deeper and deeper into the maze of server cabinets towering above them.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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