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skyscraper

noun as in tall building

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Above my desk, I made an imaginary city out of magazine cut-outs in which the right half of George Clooney’s face formed a jagged skyscraper.

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It was the first day that JPMorgan Chase’s massive skyscraper at 270 Park Avenue was opening to employees; the CEO had arrived with his architect to toast the building, a $3 billion monument to work.

After the construction of one of Manhattan’s most unusual skyscrapers, the engineer who designed it discovered a dangerous flaw in his calculations.

We had a house at the top of Mount Washington where, on a clear day, I could see the downtown skyscrapers surrounding my office—five minutes, as the crow flies.

The CEO kept an office on the 53rd floor in the Key Tower skyscraper in Cleveland, but some First Brands executives said they rarely saw the boss.

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

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