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San Diego’s lead transportation agency has moved into its new home at a trendy skyscraper on the west side of downtown, its relocation emblematic of shifting office dynamics in the market.
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Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Picture a structure taller than Seattle’s Space Needle perched sideways in the clouds—a horizontal skyscraper: only in Dubai.
—Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
City dwellers in an urban landscape bursting with skyscrapers, rushing traffic, and the cacophony of planes, helicopters and sirens, perhaps especially appreciate the opportunity to duck into a movie theater and be transported to the wilds of faraway oceans and continents.
—John Calvelli, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
The city has long been sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, leading authorities to restrict the use of groundwater to help reduce subsidence.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
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Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Picture a structure taller than Seattle’s Space Needle perched sideways in the clouds—a horizontal skyscraper: only in Dubai.
—Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
City dwellers in an urban landscape bursting with skyscrapers, rushing traffic, and the cacophony of planes, helicopters and sirens, perhaps especially appreciate the opportunity to duck into a movie theater and be transported to the wilds of faraway oceans and continents.
—John Calvelli, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
The city has long been sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, leading authorities to restrict the use of groundwater to help reduce subsidence.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Skyscraper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyscraper. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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skyscraper
noun
sky·scrap·er
ˈskī-ˌskrā-pər 
: a very tall building
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