shopping mall

noun

Examples of shopping mall in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Instead of steel walls, the interior is open and airy, with floor-to-ceiling windows to bring passengers closer to the water and make the central thoroughfare feel less like a shopping mall. Ceylan Yeğinsu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024 Macy's, an anchor of so many shopping malls, plans to close 150 department stores in a bid to reinvigorate sales and shift its public image more toward luxury goods. Alina Selyukh, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024 Six people were wounded inside Kansas City’s Crown Center in a shooting that drew a major police response and shut down the shopping mall on January 17. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2024 Retail stores and shopping malls Shopping malls and most retail stores will be open on Monday. Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2024 As part of teams’ agreements with cities and states, they have been handed the rights to transform the land around these ballparks into offices, apartment buildings, hotels and shopping malls. Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024 The speech was also broadcast live on advertising screens on shopping malls across the nation, as well as in movie theaters. Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024 The latest acquisition includes the 40-story Ayala Triangle Gardens Tower 2, home to the headquarters of ALI’s parent company, Ayala Corp, along with the nearby 348-room Holiday Inn and Suites Makati and the Greenbelt 3 and 5 shopping malls. Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 Roop's phone pinged at a shopping mall around 2 miles south of his apartment at 4:26 p.m., just over half an hour before he was scheduled to begin the exam at his parent's home in Abingdon, about 100 miles west of the mall. USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of shopping mall was in 1950

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“Shopping mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20mall. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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shopping mall

noun
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