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  • noun Plural form of high-rise.

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Examples

  • But you might not find a fourth floor in Chinese high-rises, because four implies death.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • But you might not find a fourth floor in Chinese high-rises, because four implies death.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • We live in these pseudo-apartments called the high-rises, which are on campus so you have to show your ID to get in, but which are set up like real apartments: living room, kitchen area, two singles and a double.

    Number 6 Fumbles Rachel Solar-Tuttle 2002

  • Allen was attempting to launch the Forward Atlanta marketing campaign, a $500,000 advertising program touting Atlanta as a good place to run a business and raise children, praising its booming airport, new high-rises, and low labor costs.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Today, the wildcatter's dusty image of a wrangler charging over the Texas plains has been replaced by men in suits controlling million-dollar drilling rigs and working out of glimmering Houston high-rises.

    Small oil drillers say new rules threaten wildcatters' survival 2011

  • The piece, a towering homage to the neighborhood as it was in the 1970′s, is made up of loving portraits of residents, set in a landscape of high-rises.

    ‘The Spirit of East Harlem’ mural « 2010

  • Allen was attempting to launch the Forward Atlanta marketing campaign, a $500,000 advertising program touting Atlanta as a good place to run a business and raise children, praising its booming airport, new high-rises, and low labor costs.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • An image of a taxi-clogged street is set against one of smiling boys in an alleyway; an aerial view of straight avenues, traffic circles, and high-rises is juxtaposed with one of the honeycombed streets of the old town.110

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Allen was attempting to launch the Forward Atlanta marketing campaign, a $500,000 advertising program touting Atlanta as a good place to run a business and raise children, praising its booming airport, new high-rises, and low labor costs.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Today, the wildcatter's dusty image of a wrangler charging over the Texas plains has been replaced by men in suits controlling million-dollar drilling rigs and working out of glimmering Houston high-rises.

    Small oil drillers say new rules threaten wildcatters' survival 2011

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