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mall

[mawl, mal] / mɔl, mæl /
NOUN
commercial complex with many individual retail stores
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NOUN
shopping center
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The three locations closed in Southern California were at the Westfield mall in Century City; The Point, an outdoor shopping center in El Segundo; and at the Westfield UTC mall in San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Tyler Perry Studios boasts a replica of the White House, an airport terminal, two baseball fields, a strip mall, a residential neighborhood, and a golf course.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

This isn’t an argument for turning every anonymous strip mall back into a village of idiosyncratic mom-and-pop shops.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Locals in Bangkok have transformed a flooded street in front of a shopping mall into a temporary floating market during flooding in the city.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

That afternoon, Hannah invites me to go shopping with her at the mall.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Combined with AI-powered technology, they may make it easier for people to walk into synagogues, offices and malls without peering nervously over their shoulders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"I'm super-obsessed with ube," university student Kym Trivino told AFP as she sipped an ube-matcha concoction at one of Manila's largest shopping malls.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

So, in the age of online shopping, what lies ahead for these medium-sized malls?

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

They’ve popped up in barns and on farms, in strip malls between an antique shop and an ax-throwing business and in churches, where lighting and sound for worship services is part of the curriculum.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

I developed a habit of pointing to male mannequins in shopping malls and asking if they were my father.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi




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