terrace
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Outside, tables spilled across a terrace and onto the sand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
I step off the restaurant’s orderly little terrace and make a slow serpentine path past makeshift dinner parties.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
From above, an outdoor terrace is outfitted especially for hosting recruits or other luminaries, complete, for the time being, with basketball courts and pickleball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The residence also boasts a 1,600-square-foot private terrace, which is one of the largest outdoor areas in the building.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Cautiously I approached the terrace and climbed its broad steps.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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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
Cecil Wright & Partners, a luxury yacht broker, filed the legal action in London’s High Court over Storonsky’s acquisition of Nixie, a 102-meter vessel with four terraces and an Indian teak deck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Roberto de Zerbi, the manager who saved Spurs from relegation last season, was raised on the terraces of Brescia's 'curva' by his father, Alfredo, who was president of the supporters' clubs.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Whether made with Aperol, Campari or Sarti, the spritz has rapidly established itself on terraces across Europe -- with Italy's Campari Group now hoping to conquer the heart of America.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Long slopes ran swiftly down to where the river spread in stony shoals between high grassy terraces.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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At the nearby St John's Way estate, the houses are arranged in circular terraced blocks with large courtyards.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
“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 notes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
They had reached the middle of the row of high, terraced houses on the hill, and the little green Mini parked outside.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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The official capacity was just more than 31,000, although three-quarters of the ground was terracing.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
A different report discussed terracing the river upstream from that spot — changing the sloped shape of the sides into steps, “and in those steps, you might insert areas for landscaping to grow,” Weintraub said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
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
The upper-tier will become outdoor terracing for new homes.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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