shopping mall
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shopping mall
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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Set in a Dallas shopping mall, “Forbidden Fruits” revolves around an elite clique of retail employees who run a witches’ coven out of the basement of their boho boutique Free Eden.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
How Taylor Swift saved a dying shopping mall.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
When stray cat Kanyon's bed was stolen at a shopping mall, residents decided to build him a new home.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
There is a large digital news ticker tape running above the snow-covered shopping mall in the island's capital, Nuuk.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
I was in the shopping mall because that’s where I go lately.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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