edifice
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Thick layers of sediment rich in organic material lie beneath the volcanic edifice.
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025
I took the elevator back down to street level and hopped a cab toward the strangely antique edifice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
And then, the entire edifice crumbled as Baltimore became the focus and fall guy for one of the more infamous investigations of scientific misconduct in the last half of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
The weakness in the grand edifice of American constitutionalism is that it depends on the determination, in every generation, of those in positions of authority to uphold it.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2025
I know they’ve sent countless packages that are piled up somewhere in the great, crumbling postal edifice downtown.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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