strip mall

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That may have been outré to a middle and high-schooler trying to be cool, but at some point post-college, the Chili Peppers became synonymous with sweaty fools passing out in strip mall parking lots.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Around the crack of dawn, a line begins forming at a strip mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, as residents ranging from students to delivery workers and federal contractors wait to sign up for food assistance.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

When Medallion launched in 1988 and started compounding at 66% annually, Simons didn’t celebrate by going on television, mostly because he was too busy hiring cryptographers to work in a Long Island strip mall.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

“As a food server, there’s always going to be slowdowns and takeoffs,” he said over lunch at a dim sum restaurant in a Las Vegas strip mall.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025

I’d read that in the real Middletown, Ohio, every house on this street had been demolished in the late ’90s to make room for a strip mall.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline