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boulder

[bohl-der] / ˈboʊl dər /
NOUN
megalith
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Video shows the boulder rolling towards the audience as a staff member jumps into its path, preventing it from reaching the crowd.

From BBC

Photos shared by the agency on social media showed the snow-lined highway littered with boulders and debris and expanses of it buckled and broken.

From Los Angeles Times

On Friday night, a large boulder fell from a mountainside and rolled onto Highway 18 west of Big Bear Lake; two cars were then involved in a vehicle collision.

From Los Angeles Times

Asphalt was washed away on Big Pines Highway and callers on Christmas told the California Highway Patrol that hundreds of vehicles were getting stuck trying to pass large boulders in the roadway, the CHP reported.

From Los Angeles Times

In “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Camus describes a man doomed to push a boulder uphill forever and asks us to imagine him “happy.”

From The Wall Street Journal