shopping mall
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shopping mall
First recorded in 1955–60
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Sure, you were now eating at a shopping mall and not in the booth next to Sylvester Stallone, but the experience needed to still feel glitzy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
One employee of a nearby store, forbidden from speaking to the press by her employer, guessed she’d seen 30 people taken from the area around this shopping mall alone.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Singapore has charged a British man for theft more than two years after he allegedly stole a denim jacket from a store at the airport shopping mall.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Baba drops the three of us off at the Ridgeford shopping mall.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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