concrete

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The resolution also emphasised that reparation claims "represent a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs against Africans and people of African descent".

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

“There is one concrete thing we can do: Stand together, get trained to be an effective witness, show up when we can.”

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The stories are set predominately in a middle America of big skies and lonely highways—terrain Thompson calls “the concrete pasture.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Instead, eventgoers roamed a largely empty convention center with bare concrete walls void of pink and glitter.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The floors of subprime mortgage bonds were not called floors—or anything else that might lead the bond buyer to form any sort of concrete image in his mind—but tranches.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis