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These players do not all start for Newcastle at any one given time, but this towering side still have all the ingredients to carry a threat at set-plays.

From BBC

Work soon began on erecting the towering armature, which is made of 1,800 linear feet of steel tubing and 500 planter boxes.

I met my hosts at the restaurant’s entrance, made to look like a pueblo plaza complete with a huge water fountain, towering church steeple and a pink exterior better suited for a spoonful of Pepto-Bismol.

Maybe it was the sight of Jack’s towering truck, maybe the certainty in his voice, but my mind spiraled: Am I making the most of the days I have left?

From Salon

That itself is a towering achievement, but Roy's grassroots origins in a nondescript tribal village in West Bengal state's Purulia district - thousands of miles from Venice's glamorous palazzos - makes her triumph even more meaningful.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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