concrete
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Its upper floors stand ripped open to the sky, concrete hangs in jagged slabs and a smoke-blackened staircase disappears into darkness.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
AFP journalists observed concrete foundations for a fence on the ground that had also been removed.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
The clamor of visiting children echoes outside the concrete structure while music plays deeper within the campus where couples ballroom dance in the sun.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
It is hard to miss the multistory installation of 5-foot-tall concrete words from Obama’s speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil-rights march.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Jonah focused on balancing carefully, lifting his toes from the concrete on first the left side, then the right.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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