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buildings

  • plural
    of building.
    building
    noun
    a relatively permanent enclosed construction over a plot of land, having a roof and usually windows and often more than one level, used for any of a wide variety of activities, as living, entertaining, or manufacturing.

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On a 1,700-acre industrial site in West Virginia’s Putnam County, Google is working to build a $7 billion data-center campus of up to nine buildings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nabil took me to his house, in a poor area of narrow alleys and modest buildings.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Stone buildings, built by German settlers beginning in the mid-1800s, line Fredericksburg’s Main Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Some of those who returned to the red zone found buildings reduced to charred, empty shells; in other cases, homes had been looted.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Today, one of the biggest tourist attractions is its medieval Jewish neighborhood, which looks like a storybook village in the photographs, with its stone buildings and winding alleys.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar