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high-rise building

NOUN
skyscraper
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“Being on a high-rise building and rappelling down.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

At least 81 construction workers are missing after an unfinished high-rise building collapsed hundreds of miles away in Bangkok, according to Thailand's deputy prime minister.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

Beyond a gate was a hill as tall as a high-rise building — turned into a dump for the Morenci mine in the 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

A new high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles will be the city’s largest housing project for homeless people, ABC 7 Los Angeles reports.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

They had met in an office that was in a high-rise building, so high that Joaquin could see all the way to the ocean.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway




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