shopping plaza
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping plaza
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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“I wouldn’t call it historic,” he said on a recent Sunday, while parked at a Baltimore shopping plaza.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
In a shopping plaza an hour outside Toronto, flanked by a day spa and a shawarma joint, sits a two-storey building with blue tinted windows reflecting the summer sun.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2025
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
We sped past the Publix shopping plaza, the wind whistling in my ears, and bounced over the train tracks.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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