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skyscraper

noun as in tall building

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Stern designed museums; skyscraper condominiums—most famously 15 Central Park West in New York; a presidential library, and a good deal more.

The backdrop of skyscrapers and shiny office towers was a stark reminder of the gulf separating rich and poor in South Africa, which the World Bank ranks as the most unequal country on the planet.

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JPMorgan will now get a second glitzy new tower in its empire alongside the $3 billion skyscraper that opened in New York last month.

To laud Charles, JPMorgan lit up the top of its new $3 billion Manhattan skyscraper with the insignia of the kingdom, an unusual event in a city that chased out the British in 1783.

You go to Manchester now and see all these skyscrapers being built and you think 'what are they doing for our local area?', he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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