parapet
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Potential applications include concrete pavements, highway parapet walls, and sewer pipelines.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The post included a photo of the actor’s recently released memoir, “You With the Sad Eyes,” and a coffee mug resting on what appears to be a home parapet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
The train struck debris from a landslide on the track, derailed, and collided with a bridge parapet.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
In an incredible moment of valour, within the chaos and madness, Laidlaw tore off his own gas mask, climbed up on the parapet and started playing the pipes.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
She would have been waiting for him, perhaps preparing her little speech, even rehearsing it out loud as she sat on the stone parapet.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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He learned not just about poses, pastrami and parapets, but about me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
As well as the surfaces, the existing edge parapets and central reservation barriers are in poor condition and not compliant with current standards.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025
I’m mesmerized by a relatively new entrant into this genre: The sight of rooftop pools sloshing over their parapets, raining water onto the streets below.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
The security protocol signed Tuesday, however, specified that there will be a gap between the spectators and the upper parapets, wide enough for security and rescue services to pass.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2023
Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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