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- adjective Resembling a
park
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead of being buried by family members in churchyards, the dead were taken to new large, parklike cemeteries built outside the centers of cities.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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Features: Attached garage, laundry in garage, parklike backyard.
Fresno housing market has foreclosures, but remains tight 2009
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There is also talk of adding a waterfall to a parklike area around the statue, and of building a new hotel for pilgrims.
Come Ye: Poland's Big Jesus Statue Draws Pilgrims, Chafes Nonbelievers Gordon Fairclough 2011
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Instead of being buried by family members in churchyards, the dead were taken to new large, parklike cemeteries built outside the centers of cities.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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The vision of downtown regeneration as the appropriate legacy of an unspeakable tragedy was lost, but the faulty process has resulted, largely by subtraction of every socially desirable feature, in the one thing New York's development philosophy absolutely abjures — an enormous, open, parklike public space on exorbitantly expensive land.
Rules of Engagement Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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The vision of downtown regeneration as the appropriate legacy of an unspeakable tragedy was lost, but the faulty process has resulted, largely by subtraction of every socially desirable feature, in the one thing New York's development philosophy absolutely abjures — an enormous, open, parklike public space on exorbitantly expensive land.
Rules of Engagement Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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But Oshel and other residents said the neighborhood's leafy, parklike atmosphere makes the hassle worthwhile.
Woodside Park, a leafy enclave of unique homes in Silver Spring 2010
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The bureau had promised the dam workers a healthful settlement, and it regarded the shade trees and parklike greens of an idealized small-town America as a covenant of that promise.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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In 2007, while looking for a house in other areas of the city, he found a 1917 end-unit rowhouse on a corner lot with a view of the parklike setting in Northwest near the Armed Forces Retirement Home, long known locally as the Soldiers 'and Airmen's Home.
Park View neighborhood in District is pleasantly walkable 2010
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The vision of downtown regeneration as the appropriate legacy of an unspeakable tragedy was lost, but the faulty process has resulted, largely by subtraction of every socially desirable feature, in the one thing New York's development philosophy absolutely abjures — an enormous, open, parklike public space on exorbitantly expensive land.
Rules of Engagement Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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