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  • noun Alternative spelling of high-rise.

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Examples

  • Some of us try to live even closer to the sun by taking up residence in highrise apartment buildings that mimic Icarus in steel.

    The Underground – Cities And Subcultures Beneath The Earth | Disinformation 2007

  • You may think that seeing the pleasure, the happiness in the face of a bear that you just talked off a 46 story highrise is the greatest satisfaction obtainable by man.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Be sure to visit the CENTRO of Boca del Rio -- not just the highrise hotel/shopping center part.

    12 Nights in Veracruz City and Xalapa! 2009

  • Be sure to visit the CENTRO of Boca del Rio -- not just the highrise hotel/shopping center part.

    12 Nights in Veracruz City and Xalapa! 2009

  • Be sure to visit the CENTRO of Boca del Rio -- not just the highrise hotel/shopping center part.

    12 Nights in Veracruz City and Xalapa! 2009

  • Be sure to visit the CENTRO of Boca del Rio -- not just the highrise hotel/shopping center part.

    12 Nights in Veracruz City and Xalapa! 2009

  • I am too old to worry about this but as sure as the sun comes up in the east, they will mow this coast down to build highrise condos and hotels as far as the eye can see with sops offered to environmentalists that will be as phony as a Las Vegas Eiffel Tower.

    Bacalar 2009

  • I am too old to worry about this but as sure as the sun comes up in the east, they will mow this coast down to build highrise condos and hotels as far as the eye can see with sops offered to environmentalists that will be as phony as a Las Vegas Eiffel Tower.

    Bacalar 2009

  • Be sure to visit the CENTRO of Boca del Rio -- not just the highrise hotel/shopping center part.

    12 Nights in Veracruz City and Xalapa! 2009

  • I am too old to worry about this but as sure as the sun comes up in the east, they will mow this coast down to build highrise condos and hotels as far as the eye can see with sops offered to environmentalists that will be as phony as a Las Vegas Eiffel Tower.

    Bacalar 2009

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