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as in pilasters
an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure
engraved columns supported the arch on either side
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Riccarda Joas, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Today’s largest cargo vessels are longer than three football fields, with cranes required to lift containers and stack them in towering columns.
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Gossip columns had long been a staple of music trade magazines, but on on the Velvet Rope, readers could see a response published not in days but… hours!
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
His columns, exclusive to the Tribune, now appear the first Wednesday of every month.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Today's largest cargo vessels are longer than three football fields, with cranes required to lift containers and stack them in towering columns.
—CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Hotel guests will be able to admire many of the iconic elements of the structure, such as the columns and the staircase.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
At East Orange High School, Amos drew cartoons and wrote columns for the school newspaper, played a convict in a production of The Man Who Came to Dinner and was a star running back.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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—Eileen McCarron, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2024
Riccarda Joas, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Today’s largest cargo vessels are longer than three football fields, with cranes required to lift containers and stack them in towering columns.
—Manuel Valdes, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Gossip columns had long been a staple of music trade magazines, but on on the Velvet Rope, readers could see a response published not in days but… hours!
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
His columns, exclusive to the Tribune, now appear the first Wednesday of every month.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Today's largest cargo vessels are longer than three football fields, with cranes required to lift containers and stack them in towering columns.
—CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Hotel guests will be able to admire many of the iconic elements of the structure, such as the columns and the staircase.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
At East Orange High School, Amos drew cartoons and wrote columns for the school newspaper, played a convict in a production of The Man Who Came to Dinner and was a star running back.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns, editorials and more.
—Eileen McCarron, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Columns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columns. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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