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  • noun Plural form of skyscraper.

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Examples

  • In Boston the affluent Back Bay neighborhood, which contains Victorian brownstones and some of the city's tallest skyscrapers, is another favorite (though not without some controversy due to the architectural diversity of the area, says an APA spokesman).

    America's Best Neighborhoods 2010 Brian Wingfield 2010

  • Wall Street criminal profiling should require all law enforcement officers to review all papers, voice and text messages and emails of all white adult males who worked in skyscrapers, retire in Arizona and vote for Republicans.

    Congressman arrested at Washington immigration rally 2010

  • Apparently a great photo of New York skyscrapers from the Life gallery, but I couldn't find the image.

    Gotham (link roundup) 2009

  • For instance, in the case of New York City, its engineering achievements, from the great Subway to the cloud-brushing skyscrapers, is as remarkable as any man has yet produced anywhere on the planet.

    Telic Action and Collective Stupidity: A Rare Jack London Essay 2010

  • Wall Street criminal profiling should require all law enforcement officers to review all papers, voice and text messages and emails of all white middle-aged males who work in skyscrapers, retire in Arizona and vote for Republicans.

    Poll: Majority support Arizona immigration law, with reservations 2010

  • In Boston the affluent Back Bay neighborhood, which contains Victorian brownstones and some of the city's tallest skyscrapers, is another favorite (though not without some controversy due to the architectural diversity of the area, says an APA spokesman).

    America's Best Neighborhoods 2010 Brian Wingfield 2010

  • The time for super skyscrapers is long gone, even for a Gold LEED certified Green SuperSkyScraper.

    Does Philadelphia need a Green SuperSkyScraper ? 2008

  • I also love standing in skyscrapers and peering down at the streets below.

    Fear wen_spencer 2008

  • Yes, a city where you can still find some of the finest specimens of urban architecture in America and some of the earliest skyscrapers, is now reduced to destroying them, because an unoccupied building is a building that is breaking apart and, one day or another, will fall on your head.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • Yes, a city where you can still find some of the finest specimens of urban architecture in America and some of the earliest skyscrapers, is now reduced to destroying them, because an unoccupied building is a building that is breaking apart and, one day or another, will fall on your head.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005

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