granite
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US President Donald Trump has continued his makeover of the White House, adding a statue of Christopher Colombus and laying new black granite paving stones on the famed West Wing colonnade.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Beneath Pine Island Glacier lies an enormous buried granite mass, nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick, roughly half the size of Wales in the UK.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026
Park on the west end of the parking lot to access the decomposed granite path leading to the 1.17-acre habitat garden.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Canadian women's skip Rachel Holman was pinged for a double-touch, as was Team GB's Bobby Lammie - both incidents not deliberate and the case of a lingering figure falling on to the granite.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
I climb onto the granite rock at the edge of the pond and look back at my house.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
Vocabulary lists containing granite
Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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