skyscraper
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“If you dove off a skyscraper backwards, that’s what it felt like for five seconds,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Rock climber Alex Honnold, a California native, has ascended the Taipei 101 skyscraper without any ropes or protective equipment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Over the next 175 years, the elevator drove the rise of the skyscraper, concentrating jobs and capital in dense urban cores, and reshaping how millions of people lived and worked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
On Monday, his son Eric Trump posted computer-generated images of a future Trump Library on X showing an imposing skyscraper on the Miami waterfront.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
It was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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