boulder
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Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Having squandered the good-will created by Sam Ryder's success, the BBC delegation now has the tricky task of pushing the boulder back up the hill.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
"It's not a piece of dust, but it's not a meter-size boulder, either."
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
In her first picture, she stood in a one-piece on a boulder, smiling, a waterfall pummeling behind her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
On the boulder lay Fflewddur’s harp, which played of itself as the wind stirred the strings.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
"VAR was introduced to, in Fifa's terminology, not to look for pebbles but look for boulders," former Scottish Premiership referee Bobby Madden told 5 Live.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Stream engineering aims to improve habitats and water flow, for example by building dams or placing boulders in a stream, and these efforts have cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the years.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
Somehow, creaky tiled houses have been wedged here between enormous outcroppings of glacial boulders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
That strip of land is where unhoused people congregated until Evans said she and others complained and the city put up fencing and placed boulders to keep them out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
He knows when the trail dips, when it rises, how to avoid branches, rocks, leap over boulders.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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