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spire

[spahyuhr] / spaɪər /


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Masked pair climb Empire State spire, hang peace banner.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Who expected that Notre-Dame Cathedral would emerge from the debris and lift its spire once more over the roofs of Paris, just five years after the fire of 2019?

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

First, there is an initital 113m section of sloping steel and glass followed by the eight "bamboo" boxes before reaching the final stage which includes scaling the spire at the very top of the tower.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

Barcelona stretched out in every direction, a mosaic of old stone, glass and spire, Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia standing like an undone sentry among the rest.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2025

As they walked, she kept glancing over her shoulder at the golden spire of the Admiralty.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

One side is bordered by spired red sandstone peaks and juniper trees, and there’s a cluster of family homes on the other side.

From Slate Jan. 29, 2021

Where I live, every day, on the frontlines of this digital revolution, there is every reason to feel in spired.

From The Guardian Apr. 23, 2017

For years, Rabbi White occupied an office on the first floor of Georgetown’s imposing and spired Healy Hall.

From Washington Post Sep. 2, 2015

I was often reminded that the Yucatán jungles lay just beyond Valladolid’s spired horizons.

From New York Times Nov. 30, 2012

I wandered within the spired cities and domed pumping stations of Barsoom, and along the verdant banks of the Nilosyrtis and Nepenthes canals.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Fellowship allows universities to nominate four students annually for three-year fellowships that cover spiring computer scientists’ tuition, fees and living expenses while they work with mentors.

From Washington Times Oct. 14, 2022

I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill is my ancestral stair…

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2015

Terres' monumental effort will be in spiring poets, librarians, astronauts and lovers long after the work's scientific value is exhausted and serious birders have moved on with notebooks and binoculars to newer texts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stein and Hardy are now con spiring to persuade women employees to wear pantsuits in the office to fight the onslaught of the midi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Note the ruby fires of their respective altars in the back-ground, Abel's spiring upwards in full flame, while Cain's is blown down to the earth.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare




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