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spire

[spahyuhr] / spaɪər /


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Video posted on social media showed the collapsed spire of a church in Manizales.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Two days later, Madonna reposted AI fan edits of herself atop the Empire State Building’s spire, waving a “Confessions II” banner.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Masked pair climb Empire State spire, hang peace banner.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

This base allowed to soar last Sunday’s spire of victory at another Jack Hughes’s laboring hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The name spire probably referred to the bamboo walking sticks the old sages carried with them.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

Burgos, in Castile-León, is home to a spired Gothic cathedral that is a Unesco World Heritage site.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2013

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

He found time to keep awe-in spiring files.

From Time Magazine Archive

The operators deny "con- spiring" and contend there are simply more miners on hand than the coal market now needs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Have you ever attempted to mount some old tower stairway, spiring up through darkness, and in the heart of that darkness found yourself at the cobwebbed edge of nothing?

From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard




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