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terrace

[ter-uhs] / ˈtɛr əs /


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My bestie who lives in a high-rise on 43rd Street also has a terrace and sends me photos of her sunset.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The atmosphere resembled a football terrace, with a drummer and trumpeter accompanying fans singing Sheffield Wednesday songs.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Retractable glass doors connect the interior to an outdoor terrace, allowing the living spaces to open directly onto the scenic surroundings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

On his terrace overlooking the forest in eastern Pennsylvania, Ed Negra lays out four letters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Their leaves littered the terrace, blown into piles in the corners.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

From agricultural terraces to temple ruins under Mexico City to art collections and more, tourists can get a glimpse of Aztec life from 500 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Its essence was its array of cantilevered terraces, set at right angles to one another and projecting deep out into space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

For generations, summer in Europe has been languid and dreamy, bringing fine weather and lengthy days on sunny beaches and terraces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The parcel features “expansive terraces, sprawling gardens, several guest houses, a tennis court and its own nine-hole golf course,” according to the Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

They were now in the palace garden which sloped down in terraces to the city wall.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

“The gated, private parcel offers dramatic panoramic city views and sweeping vistas, with multiple usable tiers featuring generous flat pads, terraced gardens, and a dedicated pool level,” the description noted.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The house itself serves as a time capsule of Old Hollywood glitz and glamour, with sprawling gardens and terraced lawns perched on 8.4 acres overlooking the Bel-Air Country Club.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

As we climbed the terraced pools of the West Kill, I concentrated on keeping my cast short and precise until I caught my first brook trout, or “brookie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The once thriving village included a chapel, a church, a shop, a pub, a school, a library, a post office and terraced houses.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

As the first hint of daybreak brightened the eastern horizon, the rocky, terraced terrain we’d been ascending gave way to a broad gully of unconsolidated snow.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The official capacity was just more than 31,000, although three-quarters of the ground was terracing.

From BBC ● May 23, 2024

“We knew we’d have to do a bit of terracing and retaining, but California is what it is,” Tenney said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

In addition to constructing dams and irrigation systems, the people of this region collected water from flash floods and used terracing in hilly regions.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In 2011, they began a fresh exploration of the city’s northeastern edge, a kind of premature suburban sprawl originally dedicated to agricultural terracing that had been converted for funerary and artisanal purposes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

The principal reason for its success was its innovative techniques of terracing and irrigation, the latter being used to implement the former.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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