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The corporation was housed in an imposing edifice.edifice = a building -- especially a large one
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She is determined to defeat the bill and tear down the entire edifice of free trade treaties.edifice = framework
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Their offices are housed in an imposing edifice.edifice = building
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The chapel would be closing soon, and as Langdon pulled open the door, a warm puff of air escaped, as if the ancient edifice were heaving a weary sigh at the end of a long day. (source)
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Dad had had his car written off by an uninsured driver two years previously, and somehow this had been enough for the whole teetering edifice that was my parents' finances to finally collapse. (source)edifice = framework
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There were rumblings from the beatniks and early hippies at this time about "the system" and the square intellectualism that supported it, but hardly anyone guessed how deeply the whole edifice would be brought into doubt. (source)edifice = conceptual framework
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He saw a little glow ahead of him, and then without interval a tall flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a tall edifice of fire lighted the pathway. (source)edifice = framework
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…the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; (source)edifices = structures
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…across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. (source)edifice = building
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He sat quietly, almost dozing, waiting for something to happen, really aware of nothing at all except that things were happening down below, that whole edifices of make-believe were being erected, judged, found wanting, and torn down again in the wink of an eye.† (source)
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That edifice is colossal. (source)
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Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum.† (source)
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The dark-stained, wooden buttresses against the high, vaulted, white-plaster ceiling accentuate how well lit the church is; despite the edifice's predominance of stone and stained glass, there are no corners lost to darkness or to gloom.† (source)
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But this was often private; I was left for an hour haunting the carved edifices of Notre-Dame, or sitting at the edge of a park in the carriage.† (source)
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Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.† (source)
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Thus a relatively small population was left to wander among what remained of the majestic edifices of the city's former glory.† (source)
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