: a tall building (such as a high-rise apartment building)
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Recent Examples on the WebHis repertoire included the use of a monstrosity called the Helepolis (city-taker), a type of mobile tower block estimated to be between 98 and 131 feet tall, with a base of 69 feet. Charlotte Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022 On the ground in Ukraine, meanwhile, nine people in Mykolaiv were injured on Saturday — four of them children — following Russian strikes on a tower block there, the regional governor said. Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022 That echoed Salesforce, which put up half of its eponymous San Francisco tower block for sublease in mid-July.Wired, 5 Aug. 2022 The film begins with the recent arrival of nine-year old Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum) and her family to a remote, East Oslo tower block, encircled by the dense wood that will serve as her playground. Erik Morse, Vogue, 9 May 2022 Georgio Petrovic, 21, was born a year after the bombing and lives in the same imposing, angular tower block. Marc Santora, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022 One of those strikes brought a multi-story tower block tumbling down.CNN, 12 May 2021 Today, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact.Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021 Even dexterity board games have become digitized with a virtual version of Jenga and similar tower block games like Blockle or Table Tower Online.Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020 See More