as in above
chiefly US, somewhat old-fashioned + literary on top of The house sits atop a cliff overlooking the ocean.

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Recent Examples of atop In the past, private repeaters had a home atop hospitals, universities and corporate offices, but tighter budgets and liability concerns are changing that. Barry Cousins, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 An uneven parking lot had been outfitted with a matrix of black tents erected atop low wooden platforms. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 And Europe's Hera mission launched atop a Falcon 9 in October 2024. Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2025 Their Malibu estate, a 40,000-square-foot compound designed by famed architect Tadao Ando, sits atop Billionaire's Row and is considered a masterpiece of modern architecture, according to Architectural Digest. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for atop

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“Atop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atop. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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