tower
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Along with six all-beef hot dogs and six sauces, the $60 tower comes with waffle fries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Officials said fire investigators found a “dry receptive fuel bed” below the transmission tower in a wash within Eaton Canyon, which sits just east of Altadena and north of Pasadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
At one point he even unscrewed the computer tower to take some internal components home for tests.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Plus, work halted at another NYC office tower conversion and a California developer’s big plans for the former Candlestick Park baseball stadium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Rows of sturdy pipes ran up the back of the tower.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Constantinople had a superb strategic position and massive ancient defenses: a huge moat, an outer wall, and an inner wall studded with towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
They have installed towers at four strategic locations across their land.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Though the Scooby-Doo towers would never make it across the dunes, there are better ways to build a sandwich for adventure.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Low Earth-orbit satellite networks are closer to Earth than traditional constellations, making them suitable to project low-latency broadband directly to smartphones in parts of the world where cell towers are unavailable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The trolleys ran backward on Wednesdays and the towers shifted positions on Sundays.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The curved concrete gravity dam towered 1,835 feet above sea level in the San Francisquito Canyon, about 30 miles northwest of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
A tsunami of that size would have towered more than 330 feet above sea level, higher than many modern skyscrapers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Joshua, meanwhile, who towered above Paul during Friday's event, warned he is ready to deliver an emphatic victory.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
On a recent morning at Philly Shipyard, a hulking “Goliath” crane towered over the site, sporting a fresh coat of Hanwha orange paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
They towered above all the other kids in the third grade.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
The 'trees that hit the moon' are more than towering natural monuments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Hiking through Sabino Canyon beneath towering saguaro cactuses, the empty trails felt vast and lonely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
If the fire is powerful enough and the atmosphere is unstable, that cloud can grow into a towering cumulonimbus - the same type of cloud associated with thunderstorms.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
They found Homer, but it took weeks to uncover Langley, who had been crushed beneath one of his own towering piles.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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