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Photo: Century 21 This house is small, but it’s got a lot going on — there’s an aboveground pool with a wraparound deck, a hot tub, a firepit, and a creek.
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Clio Chang, Curbed, 10 Jan. 2025
Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Less than an hour later in our conversation, a siren sent us running for an aboveground shelter the size of a walk-in closet that the farm had recently bought.
—Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Lightner and his boss grab a scroll from a coffin and then get outta there, locking the aboveground grave on their way out.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 Oct. 2024
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Clio Chang, Curbed, 10 Jan. 2025
Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Less than an hour later in our conversation, a siren sent us running for an aboveground shelter the size of a walk-in closet that the farm had recently bought.
—Jack Nicas, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
Lightner and his boss grab a scroll from a coffin and then get outta there, locking the aboveground grave on their way out.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for aboveground
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“Aboveground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aboveground. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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