façade
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Before entering the home, guests are greeted with lush greenery and tall trees that surround the dwelling’s white facade.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
On the facade of one building, giant portraits of the Islamic republic's founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, and his successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed on the first day of the war, overlook a field of ruins.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
The lettering had been stripped from the building, leaving only a faint imprint of the school’s name on the facade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
“Brats” is very much so “about the public facade of friendship,” notes McCarthy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Vocabulary lists containing façade
The Great Gatsby
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The Lightning Thief
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