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exterior

[ik-steer-ee-er] / ɪkˈstɪər i ər /




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A license plate and a vehicle’s exterior are exposed to anyone on a public road.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Scientists were surprised that microbes like these could endure exposure on the exterior of the space station.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Those rules, announced in February by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will require door handles to have both interior and exterior mechanical releases.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

The property sits above the street on two lots which have been tied together through a covenant, and has 13,930 square feet of exterior space.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

We ended up with more of the chewy exterior than the adzuki bean filling, so I took the extra dduk and made it long and stringy.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Few automobile exteriors are ever finished like this, with its broad, sterling-like chrome garnishes at the lower grille intakes, the rocker panels, exhaust outlets and bumpers, all smoothed perfectly into the blown-glass curvatures.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

While no photos of the ultraprivate property are available, a shot from Reynolds’ Instagram account with his mom gives a sense of the graphite exteriors of the charming property.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

Murphy describes the Union Street buildings as being "stone box exteriors with timber in it" - the same sort of design technique used by Mackintosh at the School of Art.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

“A friend once remarked,” she writes, “that while most people had very strong, competent exteriors and were a bowl of jelly inside, I was just the opposite.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2025

One looming problem was how to color the exteriors of the main buildings, especially the staff-coated palisades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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