shopping plaza
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping plaza
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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Video footage of the store’s opening showed customers waiting in a line snaking through the shopping plaza to enter the store, with shoppers trying samples and purchasing tote bags and snacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The address then shifted to a box in a suburban Atlanta shopping plaza, but other customers’ mail was returned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Tucked into a Chinatown shopping plaza, the modern Filipino restaurant Lasita is typically bursting with energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
Even the bathrooms are opulent in that uncanny, chain-restaurant way: part suburban shopping plaza, part Ancient Egyptian bathhouse, all backlit marble and echoing tile.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
Frank led them to a shopping plaza near the wharf, where an old railway car had been converted to a diner.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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