skyscraper
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A gaping 75-mile-wide trench now sits where a massive horizontal skyscraper called the Line was to be developed at Neom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The county is gradually moving workers into the 55-story skyscraper at the base of Bunker Hill that was widely considered one of the city’s most desirable office buildings when it was completed in 1991.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 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
In another viral example, an X account posted an AI video appearing to show Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper collapsing in a cloud of dust.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
They’d spent the next two weeks in that skyscraper, realizing quickly that they couldn’t search for loved ones yet.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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