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- adjective Throughout a
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Examples
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Meanwhile, in the summer of 1944 Japan began cutting blockwide firebreaks through some urban areas.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Now Extell wants to junk the Restrictive Dec and build 5 massive apartment/mixed use buildings - on the last open space in midtown Manhattan, where we should have instead: a true, blockwide park - it's our last, best chance for that in this city.
Marta Hallowell: Calling All Lincoln Square -- Upper West Side Celebs... 2010
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Meanwhile, in the summer of 1944 Japan began cutting blockwide firebreaks through some urban areas.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Now Extell wants to junk the Restrictive Dec and build 5 massive apartment/mixed use buildings - on the last open space in midtown Manhattan, where we should have instead: a true, blockwide park - it's our last, best chance for that in this city.
Marta Hallowell: Calling All Lincoln Square -- Upper West Side Celebs... 2010
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Two dozen cars had parked at all available spots in a blockwide radius among the dark tree-lined streets, but otherwise, the house seemed reasonably quiet from the front.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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The neat rows of condominiums marched northward through Harlem. each lovingly renovated building flanked on both sides by blockwide vegetable gardens, also lovingly tended by the neighborhood residents.
Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989
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The neat rows of condominiums marched northward through Harlem. each lovingly renovated building flanked on both sides by blockwide vegetable gardens, also lovingly tended by the neighborhood residents.
Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989
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A towering, horseshoe-shaped glass atrium that links the east and west sections of the blockwide building, it's a buzzing hive where headlines zip by on massive LED screens, banks of computers spit out stock news and workers scurry by on their way to pick up a drink or snack at a pair of broad food courts.
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A towering, horseshoe-shaped glass atrium that links the east and west sections of the blockwide building, it's a buzzing hive where headlines zip by on massive LED screens, banks of computers spit out stock news and workers scurry by on their way to pick up a drink or snack at a pair of broad food courts.
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A towering, horseshoe-shaped glass atrium that links the east and west sections of the blockwide building, it's a buzzing hive where headlines zip by on massive LED screens, banks of computers spit out stock news and workers scurry by on their way to pick up a drink or snack at a pair of broad food courts.
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