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  • noun Plural form of atrium.

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Examples

  • After two successful years bringing major players including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the water and sanitation sector together for World Water Day, it's a good time to think about taking those collaborative efforts outside the glass atriums of Washington DC and into the field.

    John Sauer: World Water Day's Over: What's Next? John Sauer 2011

  • "Other museums have grand, huge atriums and very public spaces," she says, which gives them more of a corporate feel.

    Fire-Damaged Museum Reopens in Time for 90th Birthday 2011

  • We have to prepare for the possibility that Occupied Wall Street will take new forms, and may have to spread out and decentralize as it already happening with meetings in public atriums and church yards.

    Danny Schechter: Mic Check: You Say You Wanna Revolution Danny Schechter 2011

  • "Other museums have grand, huge atriums and very public spaces," she says, which gives them more of a corporate feel.

    Fire-Damaged Museum Reopens in Time for 90th Birthday 2011

  • We have to prepare for the possibility that Occupied Wall Street will take new forms, and may have to spread out and decentralize as it already happening with meetings in public atriums and church yards.

    Danny Schechter: Mic Check: You Say You Wanna Revolution Danny Schechter 2011

  • Currently, protesters hold meetings at public atriums and donated spaces.

    'Occupy' Movement Tries Again in Another Park Jessica Firger 2012

  • Some add game or nap rooms, expansive art-filled atriums, hiking trails or private meditation rooms with music and adjustable lighting.

    Better Ideas Through Failure Sue Shellenbarger 2011

  • Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei A wine jug in the form of a woman's head Judged by modern standards of comfort and hygiene, life would have been unbearable in medieval and Renaissance homes, as the show's catalog points out, but ancient Rome got a lot right: running water, central heating, municipal sewerage, airy atriums and interior gardens.

    The Gracious Art of Living Judy Fayard 2011

  • Cell phones are sold amid the Calvin Klein and Clinique stores under the soaring atriums of India's new malls, and in the crowded markets of its working-class neighborhoods.

    India: Toilets Are Scarce, And Highly Desirable AP 2010

  • ONE our hands are tied by snickers bars and nestle starbucks and best buy for power and greed is not what i bleed my blood my blood spills in rainbows from atriums and ventricles into the water we drink the air we breathe the soldiers we lose the children who suffer the mothers who pray for some kind of light my blood, my blood it spills like rainbows.

    ‘Rainbows” by Sue « 2010

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