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in a building

ADVERB
indoors
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The elections board meets in a building near the historic site where four A&T students launched the sit-in movement to protest racial segregation in 1960.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

“They’re not going to approach nobody like me, because I’ll be looking at them like they’re crazy,” said the woman, who lives in a building in Skid Row and identified herself only as Kimberly.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

"But what I was dealing with was a number of protesters in a building site with lots of debris, lots of things there that could have potentially escalated," she said.

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Why not plant a high-functioning sociopath as a teacher in a building full of obnoxious, attitudinal, hormonal basket cases?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

It was afternoon by the time they got to the last round, and Mrs. Olinski sat shivering in a windowless room in a building big enough and official enough to have its own zip code.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg




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