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short column

British

noun

a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling

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The group, dressed in heavy military gear, silently affixes the pole to a short column along the edge of the roof before quickly walking away.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

Rachel Monroe has been writing this really great short column for The New Yorker online called Letters from the Southwest.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

In this short column, she took us from feeling sadness and hopelessness to reflection and optimism.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2021

Their form is innovative, a thin short column down the middle of each page, playing off the traditions of a newspaper obituary.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2021

The short column went out of the village at full gallop.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington

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