tall
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He now leads the body set up in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy to make tall buildings safer, and says every public and private institution failed on that tragic night in June 2017.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Race against time" says the i Paper, next to a photo of a French firefighter standing in front of a burning row of trees and tall grass.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
He put sheep in his fields when the grass was tall so they would clear away the vegetation, he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
James would join a roster that already includes charismatic star Anthony Edwards, French tall man Rudy Gobert, and erratic shooting machine LaMelo Ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Similar to Captain, she was wider than she was tall, like a skunk who’d been squashed beneath the tire of a speeding car.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Not only is the eyepatch-wearing young woman taller, stronger and more aggressive than the Asa he once knew, she grew up with their parents in the modern world.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
When Mao Zedong visited Moscow in 1950 to forge the Sino-Soviet alliance, Soviet propaganda posters depicted Stalin as slightly taller than Mao—a carefully calibrated signal of who was the elder brother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Visitors may have noticed that Odorysseus’ spadix — the conic protrusion emerging upward from the plant — was much taller than Odora’s, which had caved in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
When you stand next to Linda, she is actually taller than you would expect from seeing her on television, as she stands at 5ft 10in.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
He’s taller than me, so we’re at eye level now.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The world's tallest unoccupied skyscraper was meant to boast a rooftop pool and a luxury hotel after completion, but instead it has stood deserted in the Chinese port city of Tianjin for years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
But the tallest task for England will be coping with the location of the game itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The owner of the site, Los Angeles Cold Storage, agreed to reduce the height of its tallest planned tower from 44 stories to 30.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He had previously been in the Guinness Book of Records along with his brother as the tallest twins in Britain.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Though only half the height of the tallest eastern pines, the chestnut had a weight and mass and symmetry that put it in another league.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
