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  • noun Alternative form of high-rise.

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Examples

  • By all accounts and about a billion reports Miss Lohan and her unnaturally turgid kisser did not return to the excessively cluttered 2-bedroom apartment in a Hollywood hi-rise that she'd been renting the last year or so but rather to a glass fronted contemporary single family house in Venice last listed with an asking price of $7,100 per month.

    After Rehab, A Home On Venice Beach Boardwalk For Lindsay realestalker.blogspot.com 2011

  • By all accounts and about a billion reports Miss Lohan and her unnaturally turgid kisser did not return to the excessively cluttered 2-bedroom apartment in a Hollywood hi-rise that she'd been renting the last year or so but rather to a glass fronted contemporary single family house in Venice last listed with an asking price of $7,100 per month.

    After Rehab, A Home On Venice Beach Boardwalk For Lindsay realestalker.blogspot.com 2011

  • Camaron-Sabalo flaunts its gap-toothed sprawl of hi-rise sea view hotel rooms, exhaust-smoke roadside restaurants, quick-trip sidewalk booby traps, white clad hotel workers and uncertain thin-tanned tourists.

    Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs 2009

  • Camaron-Sabalo flaunts its gap-toothed sprawl of hi-rise sea view hotel rooms, exhaust-smoke roadside restaurants, quick-trip sidewalk booby traps, white clad hotel workers and uncertain thin-tanned tourists.

    Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs 2009

  • There, we read that the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Development group has constructed two of five hi-rise luxury condos in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu.

    New Nauru 2008

  • "I saw iconic firms collapsing and the people walking out of these hi-rise buildings with boxes and I was thinking to myself, 'This is just a moment in time and this too will pass for them' and I tried to look at what I could do to shed some light on the hardships and how great leaders have overcome similar situations in their lives."

    How Maria Bartiromo May Become the Best Teacher You've Ever Had 2010

  • "I saw iconic firms collapsing and the people walking out of these hi-rise buildings with boxes and I was thinking to myself, 'This is just a moment in time and this too will pass for them' and I tried to look at what I could do to shed some light on the hardships and how great leaders have overcome similar situations in their lives."

    Michael Martin: How Maria Bartiromo May Become the Best Teacher You've Ever Had 2010

  • On their website, you'll find this well detailed hi-rise building papercraft at 1: 500 scale.

    Japanese Skyscraper Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • People who did their best to clean the shabby rooms in the low-rent motels, and those who drew tips from business travelers in the upscale hi-rise hotel towers.

    Short Story: "Turnabout" (part 4 of a Series) 2009

  • Sorah, George French's ex wife, and George coexist in the same chic Miami hi-rise as when they were married.

    Michael Cohen: From Bravotee to Bravoite: How I Went From Fan of Bravo to Cast of Miami Social 2009

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